Then in the late 90′s domain registration started to evelove and became a bit easier. I remember in the early 2000′s that there were quite a few dodgy domain registers around like RegisterFly who took many peoples money but didn’t give them their domains. Lucky that Godaddy got the rights to nearly all of those domains and gave them back to their rightful owners.

So here we are in the later half of 2010 and we now have a much more settled domain industry and pricing. There are many registers but there are much better rules and regulations that ICann now enforce which means a safer and better environment for the domain customer.