Cheers ewan.co.za, you served me well

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.