Today i formally deleted my very first domain - at least the very first (vanity) domain I registered for my own personal use. Ewan.co.za was registered on the 27th of March 1997, back in the day when I registered my own domain directly with Uniforum. I set up and propagated my own DNS records from a Bind nameserver I had compiled from source and maintained myself on the epages DNS server (which then was an Silicon Graphics Challenge S running Irix 5.3... oh the many fond memories that brings back :-)
ewan.co.za was used to host my own home page (waaaay before blog was a meaningful term), for testing purposes, vanity email addresses, streaming tests, web crawler experiments, learning PHP and MySql, photo albums and eventually my weblog (when i moved off Blogger.com).
I am proud to say ewan.co.za has never been hosted on a Windows machine :-) Irix --> FreeBSD --> Linux. The wayback machine has some interesting history if you search on www.ewan.co.za.
This is the original Uniforum registration record, recorded for posterity:
0a_lastupdate : 1997-03-27 18:46:20+02
0b_emailsource : ewan@epages.iafrica.com
0c_emailposted : Thu, 27 Mar 1997 18:44:54 -12000
0d_emailsubject : registry of ewan.co.za
0g_historycount : 1
0h_invoiceno : 0
0i_contracttype :
0j_rcsversion :
1a_domain : ewan.co.za
1b_action : N
2a_registrant : e-PAGES Internet Consultancy
2b_registrantpostaladdress: P.O. Box 1158, Westville, 3630
2c_registrantstreetaddress: 1st Floor Herlihy House, Unit 3, Gateway Office Park, Umhlanga, 4320
2d_amount : 200.00
2e_paymenttype : A
2f_billingaccount : ePage
2g_billingemail : ewan@epages.co.za
2i_invoiceaddress :
2j_registrantphone :
2k_registrantfax :
2l_registrantemail :
2n_vat :
3a_operationaldate : 03-03-97
3b_cname :
3c_cnamesub1 :
3d_cnamesub2 :
4a_admin : xxxxxxxxx
4b_admintitle : CEO
4c_admincompany : e-PAGES Internet Consultancy
4d_adminpostaladdr : P.O. Box 1158, Westville, 3630
4e_adminphone : +27 31 561-4780
4f_adminfax : +27 31 561-2741
4g_adminemail : kerry@epages.co.za
4h_adminnic : KD1023
5a_tec : McPhail, Ewan
5b_tectitle : Systems Administrator
5c_teccompany : e-PAGES Internet Consultancy
5d_tecpostaladdr : P.O. Box 1158, Westville, 3630
5e_tecphone : +27 31 561-4780
5f_tecfax : +27 31 561-2741
5g_tecemail : ewan@epages.co.za
5h_tecnic : EM1166
6a_primnsfqdn : www.epages.net
6b_primnsip : 196.7.101.100
6e_secns1fqdn : ns1.iafrica.com
6f_secns1ip : 196.7.0.138
6i_secns2fqdn : ns2.iafrica.com
6j_secns2ip : 196.7.142.132
6m_secns3fqdn :
6n_secns3ip :
6q_secns4fqdn :
6r_secns4ip :
8a_netblock1start : 196.7.213.129
8b_netblock1end : 196.7.213.191
8c_netblock2start :
8d_netblock2end :
8e_netblock3start :
8f_netblock3end :
9a_description1 : e-PAGES provides Internet and Intranet consulting services
9b_description2 : to an established client base, and provides web page
9c_description3 : design, creation and hosting facilities, as well as domain
9d_description4 : registration, technical support, database design, interfacing
9e_description5 : and creation services.
9f_description6 : //www.epages.net/ for further details.
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