I seem to remember domain registration costing $200 from the sole registrar, Network Solutions.
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If you go back far enough, domains were an email away or at most a one time fee. I had one back that long ago, and remembered paying something for it, but that was because I didn’t have my own server. This was for a uucp/email gateway, so I needed someone with a server to batch up the email for me to download.
This was in the 93-94 range.
I remember it being $70 per domain for two years (from NetSol), but I don't remember when -- I'll go with "sometime around '95, plus or minus five years or so".
Got my first domain in 1996, and it was indeed $70 from netsol. I had many ideas to pursue and wanted to domain them all, but it was too costly, so I limited to just a couple up back then.