free .com domain???

PsychicHeart · Fri 13/05/2005 07:00:42

hey,
does anyone know any FREE .com domain sites? I am so sick of .tk, /geocities and .friendpages and i don't wanna have 2 pay the 20 bucks a month. plz help with this dilemma.
thx

Peter Thomas · Fri 13/05/2005 07:41:38

No such thing as free domains, I'm afraid. If there were, then nobody would pay.
Unless you are seriously good at conning people into buying things for you...

PsychicHeart · Fri 13/05/2005 07:52:43

damn. oh well, i gess i cud stick with .tk .
speaking of which, has anyone noticed that DotTK's server breaks down like, once a week? i have. and it sucks!!!
oh well.

Barbarian · Fri 13/05/2005 08:06:10

Are you just looking for a "domain name" or "domain name with hosting"?

If you're just looking for a "free domain name", there's several somewhat decent free services that will re-direct to a site address of your choosing.

For example, my little "Amazing Adventures!" site: www.adventure.easyurl.org
, it's a fairly decent domain name that I can easily redirect to any address I like.

There's several domain extensions to choose from.
You can find out more information on this particular service over at:
http://www.4u.ru/

Another similar service with different domain name choices, you can find at:
http://www.shorturl.com/

Of course most of these "free domain name / redirect" services may have a rule of having a little button on your main-page that links back to them, and/or they may "pop-up" a little window which mentiones about their services, but hey, for a free domain name, and most people nowadays use pop-up blockers on their browsers anyways, so it's a fairly minor annoyance to put up with.Ã,Â

PsychicHeart · Fri 13/05/2005 08:38:50

didn't u read what i said about hating using DotTK?

Erwin_Br · Fri 13/05/2005 09:05:33

Where'd you get the crazy idea that a .com (or .net and .org) domain name costs 20 bucks a month? I'm paying $ 2.50 a month for mine, which is peanuts.

--Erwin

PsychicHeart · Fri 13/05/2005 09:10:02

2.50 US, Australia what?

Ishmael · Fri 13/05/2005 10:04:45

You get free domains, up to 5 IIRC, if you sing for Tripod hosting, I think...

Barbarian · Fri 13/05/2005 10:45:56

Quote from: Flukeblake on Fri 13/05/2005 08:38:50
didn't you read what i said about hating using DotTK?

Didn't you read what I said about how to get a free ".com" (or alternative extension) domain name? :

Oh well, 'tis what I get for trying to be helpful.

TerranRich · Sat 14/05/2005 22:58:52

Try out http://hosting.roboticalworld.com. It's what I use for my site, and they're awesome. A yearly fee of $10 for a .COM domain, and $1.20 to $6.30 a month for hosting. I couldn't have asked for a better host and service.

LGM · Sun 15/05/2005 01:25:45

Here's what I just did:

I bought a domain from http://www.godaddy.com for $8.95USD/year. That's pocket change, man.
Then, sitesled offers superb hosting for $3.00/month and you can actually pay month by month, or in 3 or 6 month chunks. You get:

1000MB of Disk Space
30GB Bandwidth/month
$0.70 per gig over bandwidth limit
1 domain (You have to purchase it from another site, currently. I.E Go-Daddy.)
10 Sub Domains (These can work from you server, once you configure GD)
3 Email Accounts
Some other cool stuff.

For $8/month, you can get even more. Like MySQL and PHP and such. It's awesome. It's better than Robotical, anyways.. As far as bandwidth goes.

I dunno. You're not going to get any free .com's anywhere. Maybe cheaper than $8.95, but they may not be ICANN approved and they could get hijacked.

You could always try http://www.no-ip.org which is a very reliable forwarding service and it's free. It's alot faster than .tk and there are no adds.