{"id":2498,"date":"2008-07-29T19:29:36","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T00:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/29\/free-domains-where-to-find-them\/"},"modified":"2008-07-29T19:29:36","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T00:29:36","slug":"free-domains-where-to-find-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=2498","title":{"rendered":"Free Domains: Where to Find Them"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Matt Hedges<\/div>\n

With more and more costs involved in getting a web presence started, and those costs rising rapidly, clients are looking to saving money in more ways than ever before. There are many types of fees involved in creating a website. With web hosting<\/a> space, software to create the sites, email costs, and other recurring monthly and annual costs more companies now look for ways to save money on domain names and registration services. This is a small yearly fee but it adds up when considering the other costs involved even for a small company. Large companies are often faced with the need for multiple domain names and that only serves to compound the yearly cost of operating their online site. Free domain names can be found, but it is wise to study the pros and cons of these services and what they imply.<\/p>\n

There are a few methods of obtaining a free domain name registration. Finding out what they are is not difficult. With the use of a few strategies a business or organization can by-pass the difficulties and extra fees charged for registering a domain name. There are many online and also local companies that offer domain name registration along with a hosting<\/a> service for a website. The features of both are very similar.<\/p>\n

A few ways to obtain a free domain name are:<\/p>\n

* When you are looking for domain name companies online or a hosting company online make sure you completely investigate each one to obtain the best packages available. When you study the details make sure they include domain name registration for free. Many organizations get this service from their web hosts because of the massive business they send their way.<\/p>\n

* The best way to obtain a domain name for free from a host company is to use them for the registration of that name along with using their web hosting service, and other options such as email registration, and if available design.<\/p>\n

* Don’t neglect looking to your local area for web hosting companies. There are many advantages to using a local company. The ability to communicate issues and concerns face-to-face, or deal with problems in person is just some of those advantages. Many small local companies also offer free domain name registration.<\/p>\n

* Ask or check the FAQs section of a web host to see if their service offers free domain name registration with privacy. This protects the website from having outside sources attempt to view their privileged information. Many of these companies will alert the client if anyone tries to abuse the service and hack into the customer’s information. This is a great protection for being online.<\/p>\n

* There are some free TLD domains which you can obtain for viewing a provider’s offers and signing up for what you can use thereby gaining points. The more points you earn the more likely you are of obtaining more free TLD domains.<\/p>\n

There are a number of online domain name service providers that offer free domain names. Some of these kinds of online service providers offer free sub domain redirection whereas there are others who enable a business organization to get even a free top level domain name. These include:<\/p>\n

Freedomain.co.nr<\/p>\n

This domain name provider has a lot of great features for the website owner<\/a>. They offer no-cost redirection that are more commonly known as Domain Forwarding services. They also provide URL masking, URL cloaking, and the ability to use Path Forwarding and some other services. One of the many other cool features of this host is their offer help with Meta Tags, and Favicon. The only requirement for the free services is a link back directed at their main site. That is a small price to pay for all of the free options.<\/p>\n

Dot.tk:<\/p>\n

Dot.tk is a commonly used domain name service. It is one of the better free sub domain name providers and gives its clients .tk domains. The drawback to this company is the free service expires if certain conditions are not met by the user. If you obtain one of these names your site must receive at least 25 visitors inside of a 90 day period. It is your responsibility to keep up the traffic to your site or you will lose the use of it.<\/p>\n

Uni.cc<\/p>\n

This company provides terrific tools for site building and TLD domains as well as their free domain names. The also offer redirection and other options. The only drawback to Uni.cc is that they do not provide hosing, ftp, or email hosting at this time. They are a great source of domain names and redirection for free if you already have website space.<\/p>\n

GeoCities<\/p>\n

GeoCities is a very popular source of free websites. They also offer free domain names and registration when you convert to a for a fee premium hosting package. They have great bandwidth availability for even the lowest of packages. On their free sites which are not domain name specific there are pop up and banner ads<\/a> but on their free domain name fee-websites there are no ads. Both the free and paid sites offered great software and tech support.<\/p>\n

Google Page Creator<\/p>\n

It is a free website creation and website service provided by Google offering .googlepages.com domains. They provide 100 Megabytes of file and page storage, 41 web templates, page layout tools, HTML, CSS and JavaScript editing, and AutoSave option etc. A user is entitles for registering three unique sub domains. The best feature of this free domain name service provider is that there are no advertisements of any kind.<\/p>\n

Fadlan.com<\/p>\n

This service, like Google and yahoo’s free sites offers sub domain names for free. Your name would appear before or after these types of names such as yourname.fadlan.com. Fadlan.com also offers free redirection and forwarding. These types of sub domain names are great for non-profit organizations, or personal web pages, and fan sites.<\/p>\n

Afraid.org<\/p>\n

Afraid.org offers the options of several domain names available to choose a suitable sub domain. After signing up at Afraid.org, they provide ample services including a tool to update the IP redirection. The limitation is 50 sub domains for a single user account. This free domain name service can be used for Domain Hosting, free DNS Hosting, Dynamic\/ Static DNS Hosting etc.<\/p>\n

C-o.in<\/p>\n

This is another cost free as well as very effective online free domain name service provider. Their services include free URL Redirection service and free sub domain forwarding services, which is available in four different formats.<\/p>\n

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