What's the most you've paid a .com, .net, or .org domain??

[iMav]

This, primarily, is an indicator of how long ago you started registering and utilizing domains. 

For me, I paid $200-ish dollars for "uhhh.org" back in 1998.  I had my first webpage up in 1995 (via a hosted shell account from my local Computerland)...it was a fairly anemic Solaris system. 

Kids now days are into the latest tech right away...but I don't think the high school and younger kids latched on to public internet in the mid-90s (college kids certainly did...as they were exposed to it right away). 

How many were using archie and gopher as pre-graduation teenagers? (I worked at a university at the time...which is why I as so well exposed)

[huh.  derailed my own thread before the first post was completed]

[baldgye]

I paid for the domain 'MGS-X.com' was £60 a year... Pretty sure tho that's because I was forced (by another party) to use an awful Dutch domain company

[sethk_]

I have never paid more than 12$ for a domain, if I find one for sale that I like though, I might go for it

[Megaweapon]

I was too broke when .com's were $60/year and the entire registry was run by one guy in his spare time.  So my first domain purchase was when Joker.com came on the scene with their $12 (I think?) price (the lowest ever, at the time).

It always makes me a little dazed thinking about the numerous generic domain names I could theoretically have hand-registered in the late 90's then flipped for five or six figures each just a few years later.  It was basically the 90's equivalent of getting in on the ground floor of Bitcoin.

[iri]

$25.
Also, I remember gopher and Usenet.

[paicrai]

i have a question for you, have you ever paid more for a domain than wall repairs?

[njbair]

IIRC the first time I purchased a domain was as a 20 year old, which would have been 2001. I think it was about $30 for a year. The domain was drunkenpumpkin.com, which I just thought sounded funny at the time. Never did anything with it or bothered to renew it after the first year. Apparently now it's some weird zombie thing.

iMav, I remember gopher from when I was really young, but my memories of that are mostly watching my dad use it. I didn't really take an interest until the early-mid '90s with MUDs and IRC.

[Input Nirvana]

One of my female employee/girlfriends got me GUNNAR.COM in about '96-'97 for the 2 year minimum registration ($60?) at the time but I never did anything with it, way too busy to deal with small potatoes. Not long after it expired someone snapped it up. I just checked and it's for sale for $15,000. I won't be repurchasing it, unless ya'all wanna chip in to do something great with my name. I currently have my fist+last name.com which was free with the purchase of another domain+hosting package. Thanks go daddy.

[Puddsy]

I pay a dollar a year for buttclan.info

[Computer-Lab in Basement]

think i paid like $25 for 2 years for theclib.net back in 2012

[Altis]

I've always wanted to know how much is paid each year for www.31337.com.

It has always cracked me up because it has no content but the message "celebrating ___ years of no content", which is now at 17 years. Someone keeps changing the number every year manually. It's the most pointless webpage conceivable but for some reason it I still check out it out sometimes.

More importantly, someone seems to still be paying the bill and I can't really imagine why.