Memory's hazy (it might have been a year or two before 1999) but I remember in the UK buying a domain from Network Solutions with a credit card but then I had to fax a signed document to their US office to actually authenticate ownership. This wasn't an automated anti-fraud thing like you might see today, it was just standard procedure for on-line orders (or at least non-US ones).
But, yeah, paying on-line with credit cards was absolutely a thing in 1999.
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Memory's hazy (it might have been a year or two before 1999) but I remember in the UK buying a domain from Network Solutions with a credit card but then I had to fax a signed document to their US office to actually authenticate ownership. This wasn't an automated anti-fraud thing like you might see today, it was just standard procedure for on-line orders (or at least non-US ones).
But, yeah, paying on-line with credit cards was absolutely a thing in 1999.