New on LowEndTalk? Please Register and read our Community Rules.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
Free domain (ie. dot.tk) is it reliable?
My friend wants to register a domain for his hobby website, he can get free hosting from me, he doesn't want to use subdomains like subdomain.mydomain.com, he wants a domain name.
I also use dot.tk, it's just I'm not sure if it's reliable. I have heard of a lot of horrible stories, like once your .tk gets popular, they will suspend / delete your .tk and replace your website with ads etc.
I know he can get a real $0.99 domain for the first year, but what about the second year? a lot of registrars offer $0.99 domain registration, but normal price for domain transfer.
Any help is appreciated
Comments
time to get a proper domain. you can get renewals between 3-15$ per year for example ovh, or those pw, win, bid etc ...
every man needs a domain.
A lot of people use co.nr too - plenty of 'free' extensions. It used to be that .info was really cheap each year, but seems that's not so often the case now either.
@JSCL is co.nr reliable?
@ehab $5 renewal is fine, anything more than $7 will be too much.
check out
https://porkbun.com/
https://www.ovh.com/fr/domaines/
others may join and suggest.
They close your accounts or dekete your domains. Also the sane with freenom.
Get a paid one, it's cheap, like a few coffee cups nowadays.
Seriously?
.tk is legit but there have been stories of popular .tks been seized once they're popular. May just be forum legends.
Just tried biz.nl -- free co.nf subdomains (you need to get their free hosting though...)
He might consider getting a .win for $0.66 from namecheap:
https://www.namecheap.com/promos/cheapest-tld-business-finance-domain-name-48cents.aspx
($0.48+$0.18 ICANN fee).
Is Whois privacy important to him?
For domain pricing check: https://tld-list.com/
You can get these domains for $0.66 for the first year or around $6 for 5 year registration.
.xyz
.win
.men
.bid
.party
.webcam
.date
.download
.review
.racing
.trade
.stream
first year is not important, a lot of registrars offer $3 or less for the first year, but most of them charge $10 for renewel / transfer.
he prefers .com as it's the most common tld.
will definitely check out tld-list.com. Thanks
Don't use .tk or their domain. They are horrible and can ban your domain or whole account without even answer why did they do that!
No. They are real. Also, when populating lot of their domains (.tk, .ml, .cf etc.) they ban your account from creating new domains and they maybe close some of your existing, enforce you to buy them to continue using them (for +8$ per year!).
If you want some free domains for testing purposes or to resolve some non-public services/sites, you can use a second level domain. I use for over 3 1/2 years .cc.cu . Extremely reliable, with just one issue: it does not work with cloudflare. Of course, they are working alone just fine with name servers or A records, or use freedns as cloudflare dns replacement.
I'd set him up with a free subdomain on Afraid, and if he decides he needs real DNS, he can easily register and set it up there.
If he want's a .com he's just going to have to pay about $9 to extend it each year unless
he's really frugal and transfers it to the registrar with a promo price for transfers every year.
It's not a rumour. They seized one of my domains a couple of years ago for no good reason. Not high traffic but a 'premium' domain.
If the budget is that tight, then having one's own domain may be too optimistic. Choose a free subdomain instead: see, for example, @WSS's suggestion above.
If someone can't afford less than one cent a day, perhaps they have bigger issues at hand than DNS- heck, I remember when a .com cost you $35/yr.
Afraid has over 70,000 free/public domains available for use. You're not going to find much better for free.
or 20...
I remember when it was $100 for 2 years - %!@#ing Network Solutions.
Yep. Remember when they decided to start advertising for unregistered zones and basically broke the internet for a week?
They've worked just fine for me so far.
.xyz
NameCheap is doing a promo, $0.48/year or $5.58/5 years
.bid
.trade
.webcam
.party
.science
.cricket
.faith
.date
.review
.accountant
.download
.racing
.loan
.win
.men
.stream
https://namecheap.com/promos/cheapest-tld-business-finance-domain-name-48cents.aspx
Did they give you any option to pay for it or something like that?
You don't pay, which means you don't have the ownership rights for the domain.
I've been using them for few years and they are good.
Complaints are from people that wants free things but doesn't wants to pay or read the ToS/T&C and start complaining.
There's nothing in the T&C about domains being seized if they become popular:
http://www.dot.tk/en/index.html?lang=en
Yet, we have reports of that happening - just google.
So what is your point.
BTW, .tk has numerous content limitations as well - see that link for details. An important one is that their "content verification system" has to be able to crawl your site, so putting up something with a login is all the pretext they need.
.tk is just shady.
I had a .tk years ago, and it was phonetically close to a certain man we've all seen on .tk before. It was seized without any reason- I created a personal YTMND type site for myself and my friends, but evidently having nothing rude or copyright material- it was still more than enough to take away, just because.
No it just all of a sudden disappeared from my panel. Sent them en email but never heard back from them. It's not a big deal as with a free service you know in advance this can happen. I'm still using them when I need a temporary domain or something for development though.
so far I have no complain with freenom. I still have the domain I used for my personal blog that has an average of 80 unique visitors per day and email for almost two years now. I heard about the company being untrusted so I decided to get a new paid gtld and decided to just redirect all traffic from my dot.cf domain to my new gtld. Freenom is good for testing stuff but not for production.
You need to buy an .com .net domain internationally for long-term use
check in: https://spam-spam-spam-spam.com
http://spam-spam-spam-spam.com
http://spam-spam-spam-spam.com
Best moderation ever.