On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:
I registered
'american.com' in um, 95 an it caused a bit of a stir :-)
seems the folks at american university (
american.edu) didn't like that
(but hey, the company was called 'american internet' so it seemed
natural).
My recent win was getting
ebt.com, which is a company that I used to
work at, and whose assets (some of them anyway), we now own. The whois
on that is 93... EBT was one of the founding members of the W3C, and I
wanted to preserve the time stamp.
I registered
Linux.com and
Linux.net in early
94. And yes, those
caused a stir, both and the time, and much later :)
At that time, I was working at a startup in Mississippi (yes..), and
later "moved in" with InfoMagic, where we decided to move operations
from NJ to AZ. Since I was bored, I decided to put our
T1's to better
use, and started up our ISP-part of the business, which we
sort-of
had even in mid-1992, albeit off a 56K switched circuit using a NeXT
as a shell box.
--f