Has freenom eventually died?

0xC7

I have used .tk domain around 2012-2014's ... registered with my.dot.tk, however I couldn't renewed /rejected on 2016 my.freenom.com ... maybe because (very) low traffic

tra10000

@JosephF said:
Has Freenom historically cancelled/deactivated free domain registrations if you didn't actively login to your Freenom account once every x amount of months or so? I'm referring to even before they started having their recent problems in the last year or so.

No they didn't do that, at least for me. I didn't log into the account for a very long time, but I checked today and it was there. But I bought free .Tk and paid .Net. All of them were canceled over time and I no longer had any domains with them.

Hotmarer

https://www.freenom.com/en/freenom_pressstatement_02122024_v0100.pdf

https://domainincite.com/29520-freenom-settles-500-million-meta-lawsuit-and-will-exit-domain-business

shruub

@JosephF said:

@shruub said:

@JosephF said:
Has Freenom historically cancelled/deactivated free domain registrations if you didn't actively login to your Freenom account once every x amount of months or so? I'm referring to even before they started having their recent problems in the last year or so.

They said they would do it and it is/was in their TOS as well, but I have personally never experienced it.

Because I had a Freenom account with two free domains about four years ago (that I almost never logged into or used) but I see that my account with them no longer exists (for at least the last year.)

How often have you logged in (or used your domains)?

Hmm. Logged in, not that often, unless in the rare event I registered a new domain or changed the mail servers. I had got 2/3 pretty active domains, but other than that, most were for temp projects or projects I never finished.