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Check out this http://www.dot.tk it`s very good redirection service, and most of all, it`s free

Do you know anything about what it provides? I know altervista.org, i use it just as a virtual hd (I know, it's not allowed, but I need it), but it's a great domani hoster, completely free. Check it out

I heard about dot.tk many months ago... I use it for couple of my sites. It is a free/paid domain name. I use free (ofcourse). Free is registered to them (Tokelau Islands), and all you need is to have more than 25 (twenty-five) visiotors in 3 month (I think). Also you can turn off the default ads... so the site will act like a normal TLD (Top Level Domain)...

I really, really don't like .TK's.

A)They're slow.
B)They have popups (even though they're blocked, they occasionally come through).
C)It looks unproffessional
D)No DNS!
E)That annoying page you get before you can go into the site.

Suit yourself, but I would prefer a subdomain or a normal TLD

before they only have one pop-up ad.

now they have that welcome page and will have to view it for a few seconds althought you have th eoption to click to go to the site.

dot.tk before seems cool but now, they are just like the rest of free doman..full of ads. whats disturbing is the ads are in places where your wed designs coudl get destroyed or unpleasing.

some register is allowing .be for free i think, but i forgot which one..

I was congratulating myself when I first found .tk (3, maybe 4 years ago). They were decent, pretty stable (ie it worked), and fast.

Then they introduced their lovely "Get a free polo shirt" popups - I killed it right away, but other people's popups bothered me. Then they honored the world with their "intro" page. Screw that ;]

What always bothered me the most is that occasionally when I'd type my (or any other) domain, it'd take me to dot.tk website with a message: We're sorry, but this domain is already taken.. and then it wouldn't open my website at all.

I gave up on it.

Though I could say how long I know that has been around it wouldn't prove much of anything other than I spend too much time online. I prefer to use www.no-ip.org, still free. No ads. (not on my sites anyway)

krod wrote:some register is allowing .be for free i think, but i forgot which one..

www.eurodns.com - I'd swear I didn't tell you about that

Dunno how long the free .be thing is going for or if its even still going but I took advantage of it at any rate

.tk domains is shit nothing more, they just giving it free but you must before entering your site review a some advertise it's damn not good, better to use some sub domain or ask friends maybe they have some free domains ;-) And no possibility to reverse that domain on IPv6. I heard that .be domain is giving for free one year to try, and no some shit things. even saw reversed that domain ;-)

I prefer www.uni.cc , sure you get a second level domain but it's fast and has relatively good uptime.

The top level domains are so cheap now a days including web-hosting that I think its better to have a paid domain then redirection service with loads of Ads.

I have a .info domain with 10MB (HTML only & two mailboxes) hosting for only $10 per year.

thats still quite good though

thanks
adam

Do you Now nic.de.vu there you can request most of free Domains.

mini wrote:I really, really don't like .TK's.

A)They're slow.

Depends on the nameserver.

mini wrote:B)They have popups (even though they're blocked, they occasionally come through).

Popups don't have much to do with the TLD you use.

mini wrote:C)It looks unproffessional

Why?

mini wrote:D)No DNS!

What are you talking about?!

mini wrote:E)That annoying page you get before you can go into the site.

What are you talking about?!

mini wrote:Suit yourself, but I would prefer a subdomain or a normal TLD :)

It is a sub-domain. What's so 'abnormal' about the tk TLD?