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My only thoughts after reading this: really cool (although I wish I had a use case to justify copying it) but how does one obtain a domain name like josh.com for a personal blog?

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Registering the domain in July 1995 is a good start!

https://whois.gandi.net/en/results?search=josh.com

This is Josh levine's site, the guy behind Island; he basically started electronic trading. He used to use this site to stream himself trading in the 90s/00s. Crazy seeing it on hn, I'm just finishing a book he was featured in

More details [1], if anyone is wondering what was Island ECN.

[1] https://www.wired.com/1999/07/island-2/

This guy quite literally invented payment for order flow along with Island.

Source: https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Pools-I-trading-machines-ebook/d...

It was a different world in 1995. I was able to register my first name as a domain name also in 1995 because it was simply unclaimed.

I wish I'd known, back in the 90s, that I didn't actually need DNS hosting arranged in order to register domain names. The form asked for DNS server names and I assumed that my registrations would have been rejected because somebody would be checking to see if the DNS servers were actually authoritative for the domain.

At the time I was getting dialup service from a small regional ISP.

One day I asked them if I could use my own domain name and they happily offered to host the dns records, make my dialup IP static, and set records for www,mx, etc. All for a small one time setup fee which I gladly paid.

I had previously been given an old sun box which I then setup with a modem on a dedicated phone line (with auto-redial) and suddenly I had my own internet site in my apt!

I have so much nostalgia for those magical days.

It looks like you obtain it in 1995.

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