13 Free Domain Services
We’ll start with probably the most popular one out there today, DotTK.
DotTK offers free .tk domain names, as well as paid .tk domain names
($6.95/year). The free domain’s come with a twist though - a Free .TK
Domain automatically expires when it does not receive the required
minimum of 25 unique visitors during the previous 90 day period. DotTK
supports frame redirects, and also allows you to use your own name
servers to seamlessly integrate your .TK domain into your website. DotTK
also offers their own DNS service in-case you’d rather use that. If you
do not set your website to properly redirect or if the DNS is still
updating your .TK domain will display a parking page with
advertisements.
.CO.CC
follows next – and one of the most unique features they offer is
complete support for international domain names. Want ????.co.cc? No
problem. CO.CC also supports Windows Live Custom Domains, integration
with Google Apps, as-well as Blogger custom domains. There are
absolutely no ads for .CO.CC domains either. CO.CC also offers their
own free DNS service with full NS, MX, A and CNAME records. To boot
.CO.CC domains are geotargetable – allowing you to use Google Webmaster
Tools to specifically target any specific country to display your
website listings for.
CC.CZ
is another good free CC domain. The CZ prefix does imply Czech
Republic, but registration is in no way limited to other users, and
their domains are accessible world-wide. As opposed to CO.CC and CO.TV,
they allow free short 3-character domains; many are still available,
sograb yours now! You can also register their free domains for two years
in a batch, so that relieves you of one more thing to worry about
anytime soon. Domain renewal is always free, of course!
.CO.NR
is a great free domain name service with tons of features. They are
completely ad-free with quick and simple integration with Google
Webmaster Tools and Yahoo Site Explorer. They support URL forwarding, as
well as Path forwarding – meaning yourwebsite.co.nr/folder will
automatically redirect to angelfire.com/users/~yourwebsite/folder.
EU.ORG
is one of free domain pioneers. Present since 1995, their free sub
domain is intended for everyone, who cannot buy their own domain.
Various county-code and functional sub domains are available. EU.ORG
domain registration procedure seems a little challenging at first, but
is actually really simple and fully automated. First you register an
Administrative handle (yourself), and then you attach a domain to your
handle via online form. You can also set NS and MX DNS records.
ZA NiC
was created to provide free domain registration under ZA.NET and ZA.ORG
to companies, not-for-profit organisations or private users who cannot
afford the fees demanded by some domain name registrars or who simply
believe that domain names should be a freely available resource for
everyone. Registration of a subdomain of .za.net and .za.org
is restricted to individuals and organisations with a presence in South
Africa. Valid South African contact details are required to support the
registration. You will also need to have your own nameservers setup and
ready to use with your ZA.NET or ZA.ORG domain name as ZA NiC does not
provide URL forwarding or their own DNS services.
.FREE is a fairly new service launched to support the change in TLD’s recently announced by ICANN.
The purpose of .FREE is to create a fertile ground for companies,
individuals and organizations to register their personal .FREE domain
names. The dotFree Group s.r.o., an internet community with over 150’000
supporters world wide, will be responsible for managing the top-level
domain .FREE. .FREE is 100% open and allows any person on the planet to
register and use .FREE domains at no cost. Anyone in the world has an
opportunity to build up their online identity by obtaining a unique
.FREE domain name.
.CU.CC
is another full featured free domain provider – offering full DNS
service with MX, CNAME, A and SOA records. Furthermore they allow you to
register up to 5 domain names per account. The interface is very simple
and straightforward – and resembles most other free domain name
providers. .CU.CC does however offer a ticket based support system for
all of their customers.
.UNI.ME,
a fairly new provider who launched in December 2011, is partnered with
Microsoft to offer free domain names to students and educators. Members
can register unlimited domain names per account – and the domains are
set to never expire.
SmartDots offers
several free domain names, each of which come with Full DNS management,
300MB of hosting space, no bandwidth limits, an email and an ftp
account, along with full PHP + MySQL support with the hosting. This is
as full-featured as it gets really.
FreeDNS
offers 90,000+ free domain name options for you to choose between –
easily the largest selection of any provider out there. This includes
full DNS management – along with support for Dynamic DNS, Round Robin
DNS, and robust support for CNAME, A, AAAA, MX, NS, TXT, LOC, RP, HINFO, SRV records.
Redirect.It offers a free url redirect service for webmasters, with a choice of 11 creative subdomain options.
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