These old documents bring back memories.
This weekend I cleaned out some old boxes of files and came across one labeled “domain names”. It contained a bunch of documents I’ve saved over the past 20+ years related to my domain name investing.
There were a handful of my Network Solutions receipts from registering domain names while I was in college. Back then, you’d get a paper confirmation in the snail mail whenever you registered a domain name. I remember going to the mailbox somedays and find a dozen envelopes from Network Solutions. (See image above.)
I also found the transfer documents I sent to Network Solutions when I sold my first website. I built the website in my dorm room using Microsoft Frontpage and sold it on eBay.
Speaking of which, transferring a domain name back then was a big pain. I found a couple of transfer documents I had faxed to Dotster to transfer domains I sold. I even had to copy my photo ID to send along with each multi-page transfer request.
Oh, and then there was this printout of Adsense earnings from January 2005:
Unfortunately, that was just about the end of the Adsense gravy train.
Rick Schwartz says
Not only do I have many hundreds of those, I have the TShirts they sent out to match!!
David T Michaels says
Don’t throw them out. You never know when you’re going to need these receipts in a domain dispute.
fizz says
Good suggestion David.
Matt says
So much fun! CashDash is a nice name – did you sell it? (I see it’s forwarding to a domain that breaks a few branding rules: rapyd.net)
Andrew Allemann says
I did sell it. It’s interesting to see that the company seems to have rebranded.
JZ says
I still have a bunch of those. I kept them for nostalgia reasons but sadly the domains i registered in the late 90’s were essentially worthless.
thelegendaryjp says
Very cool Andrew, this was a great system for thieves as well lol