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Fri, Sep 24th 1999 10:49am — Mike Masnick
Well, well, well, it had to happen sooner or later. There are free PCs supported by advertising, free ISPs supported by advertising, free webpages supported by advertising, and now you can get your very own dot-com domain for free supported by advertising. Not really sure how this will fly, but I'm sure there will be a fair number of takers.
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    AlexN, 24 Sep 1999 @ 6:18pm

    free domain

    The offer of the company for a free domain name does have a hidden twist. If you sign up for their service and have them register "your" domain, the domain becomes the property of the company, not you. Just check their terms of service.

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      Mike (profile), 24 Sep 1999 @ 6:39pm

      Re: free domain

      oooh... that's an important fine point. I didn't notice that at first. In fact, I was wondering how they kept people from registering it through them and then switching it so it had nothing to do with the company whatsoever. I guess taking ownership is the only way to guarantee they won't move it. But still... that's a big price to pay.

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      Bobby Joe, 25 Sep 1999 @ 5:38am

      this is stupid

      As if not enough of the possible names for domains aren't taken up already, this is going to make it even worse... Plus, if it's technically "their property," who would want to deal with that? A domain name is less than 100 dollars a year anyways, it's not like thats a whole lot of money.

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        Mike (profile), 25 Sep 1999 @ 2:42pm

        Re: this is stupid

        I definitely thought it was somewhat stupid as well, but as a friend pointed out, it's great for domains that you wouldn't buy, but don't necessarily want someone else to control either.

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      Leandra, 22 Apr 2000 @ 11:51am

      Re: free domain

      If the company actually owns the domain name, what rights are given to you? I mean if they are actually in ownership of the name they purchase for you, do you still get to control the site? And if a company offers you the opportunity to get a free domain name and free web hosting, do you think that you would be charged to change anything? Because that's how some company's get you. They offer a really low price for web hosting, but if and when you need to make changes, they'll charge you maybe up to $500 a page to make them. Do you think that that would be the same case for free domain names AND free web hosting?

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        kelly, 5 May 2000 @ 5:14am

        Re: free domain

        I just need a domain, so I can give out email accounts, so, could this work for me? Whats the name of the site?

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          Smaster, 3 Jan 2001 @ 1:26am

          Re: free domain

          Hello Kelly......you can give out free email accounts at everyone.net and zzn.com

          Smaster
          (of course...its not my real name..)

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