Where to Find Free Domain Names

Published on July 29th, 2008 by Matt Hedges in Web Design

by Matt Hedges

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 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.

There are a few methods of obtaining your own domain name for free and it is not difficult to learn how. There are several strategies you can use to get your business, or organization a domain name and sidestep the nagging frees charged by external companies just to register your name. You can search for domain name companies’ online or local registration or hosting companies in your surrounding neighborhood.

Tips for obtaining a free domain name:

* 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.

* The easiest way of obtaining a domain name is to use the web host’s services for hosting your website. Many web hosts offer free domain name registration if you sign up for one of their packages, and also include email and web design as well.

* Hire a local domain registration and hosting company as it is always a better option as they function from within spitting distance, which enable more human contact. Unlike their online counterparts, the local web hosting companies provides the probability of face to face negotiation and bargaining.

* 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.

* 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.

There are quite a few services that offer domain names and offer free names and registrations. You will also find some that give the ability to re-direct your existing domain name to their service. Some will enable an organization to get top-level domains for free. Some of these providers included in the list below:

Freedomain.co.nr

This domain name provider has a lot of great features for the website owner. 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.

Dot.tk:

This may be one of the leading free domain name providers. It a top level domain name provider and they also offer free .tk names. The biggest drawback to this service is it is only temporary free service. It lasts for 90 days if you have less than 25 page views during that time. It also has popup advertisements that are beyond the website owner’s control making this a less popular option.

Uni.cc

Another very popular provider of free domain names is uni.cc. They offer some really great incentives to use their service in the form of site builders, free domain names, redirection, TLD domains. A major drawback is that this site no longer offers web hosting services, or email hosting as well as no longer providing FTP services. This makes them very limited for the use of a domain name.

GeoCities

It is one of the most popular free domain name provider site. The for-fee premium web hosting service is introduced by Yahoo! and it provides 3 GB monthly bandwidth limit. However, there are banner or popup advertisements on every page. The services provided by this site include manual for creating a web page, PageBuilder, design tools, PageWizards, File Manager and several other great add-on options.

Google Page Creator

Google’s page creator is a wonderful new availability for a fast, free website. It is still in development but offers a great many tools for site creation and is very easy to use. There are some severe limitations to the free service and still some kinks to work out but it is effective. Remember that services like this and Yahoo’s above free sites do not give unique domain names for free, but sub-domain names. This is less impressive for business and commercial sites.

Fadlan.com

This free domain name service provider offers .fadlan.com domains. They provide free URL Redirection service and free Domain Forwarding service. The site also offers several other services such as free DNS that enables a website owner to run their own web server on any sub domain provided they have a static IP address.

Afraid.org

The nice thing about afraid.org is the ability to choose from several sub domain names. After sign up and registration at Afraid.org you get plenty of services including an update your domain tool which allows for redirection to your web space if you have one. They have a restriction of only 50 domain names per account.

C-o.in

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.

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