Free domain is too expensive to mantain for large period of time.
In this post I’ll share with you my personal experience in quest for “Free internet domain”. At present there are several ways to locate you page on internet. You can make decision by 2 major features.
1. Page with your name and/or last name or nickname.
2. Page with the reference to the activity, service or product that interests you or want to promote.
Those pages will be searched in google, yahoo or msn and comparatively depending on the number of related names and/or visitors you will rank higher or lower in search engines. One of the best pages with your subdomain is wordpress.com or blogger.com.The reason is that they are both highlighted in search engines and are very user friendly. Page after it looks as well http://vladimirklimsa.wordpress.com/ o http://vladimirklimsa.blogger.com.
I learn and do not recommend put behind your domain letters tk, or as many viz here. What is the catch? Free is never free. If you do not pay for something it is not yours. You can look for instance to “free domain” .vu that was free for years – until it has become known and acquired customers, then free has changed from 0 to $ 19 each year. Co.cc is another domain considered “Free.” Well go and try to register for example love.co.cc (640 $ per year). Besides risking your “free” domain, search engines do not recognize them very well, therefore you lose in competition not to mention look.
Another option I do not recommend is free domain with hosting The reason is that “free domain” separately will cost you around 19$ or more and every year there is massive competition among hosting companies which do offer better and cheaper services. So if you change your hosting and you want to redirect dns (to save money) to another domain host, the hosting company may charge you for liberating dns (around 50$).
Domain is representing who you are and what you do. How much would you pay to present yourself to the world? How much would you pay to gain popularity in the search engines google, yahoo, msn? How much would you pay to offer your best face to your new friends? How much would you pay for presenting yourself in the best light before your clients? Go and invest in yourself at least 1.92 dollars (prize of .info) for one year at Godaddy.com
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Thanks for pointing out what should be common knowledge. Free is never free. I come realizing this when my hosting company ask me to continue paying for domain which with them was free but under other hosting it cost me 19$/per year. When I try to obtain Domain Transfer Authorization they ask me nicely for 43$.
Paul