BlackHatClass Posted April 19, 2012 Posted April 19, 2012 As you probably already know, you can pre-register .free domains at dotfree.com. They're launching in 2013, so you're gonna have to wait to use the domains. They allow up to 20 domains for each account. Note: when pre-registering domains don't waist your opportunity by trying to get domains that will not be awarded to you anyway - like pepsi.free, or walmart.free. Go for generic stuff like creditscore.free or loseweight.free Quote
Administrators Nathan Posted April 19, 2012 Administrators Posted April 19, 2012 Why wouldn't they be awarded to you anyway? Can you get them from any registrar? Quote
ford1001 Posted April 19, 2012 Posted April 19, 2012 I bagged a few, 8 to be exact, weight loss ones and forum promotion Quote
Administrators Nathan Posted April 19, 2012 Administrators Posted April 19, 2012 I bagged a few, 8 to be exact, weight loss ones and forum promotion Where do you register them? Quote
ford1001 Posted April 19, 2012 Posted April 19, 2012 You pre-register them on the site, dotfree.com Quote
Administrators Nathan Posted April 19, 2012 Administrators Posted April 19, 2012 Just picked up my max of 20 Can't believe some of these are not taken yet. Some really good ones. Quote
Administrators Nathan Posted April 19, 2012 Administrators Posted April 19, 2012 Strange it let Tony and I preregister the same domain name there....what's the deal with that? Quote
TehPhantom Posted April 19, 2012 Posted April 19, 2012 Its gonna be a while before .free domains are public in the internet. Its probably gonna take at least 2 years before you start seeing them around. Quote
Godric Posted April 19, 2012 Posted April 19, 2012 Thats nice. TIme to get some free domains and its .free this time. LOL Quote
Jessi Posted April 19, 2012 Posted April 19, 2012 Why wouldn't they be awarded to you anyway? Because those are trademarked names. You can try preregistering pepsi.free if you want, but they own the name and will have access to it first...and likely already have it set and ready to go anyway. Thomas 1 Quote
BlackHatClass Posted April 20, 2012 Author Posted April 20, 2012 Strange it let Tony and I preregister the same domain name there....what's the deal with that? You can request up to 20 domains, but 1 account will get only 1 domain. So you can pre-register 20 domains, but will end up with only 1. Thomas 1 Quote
SwitchCase Posted June 24, 2012 Posted June 24, 2012 Are they seriously free? How is the security of the domain? Can it be abused by spammers like other free domains? Is the domain AD-free? Quote
SwitchCase Posted June 24, 2012 Posted June 24, 2012 You can request up to 20 domains, but 1 account will get only 1 domain. So you can pre-register 20 domains, but will end up with only 1. Can you put a source to verify your statement? Thanks. On their website, it is stated that you can pre-register for about 25 domains. But it is not indicated that you can only own 1. Quote
bryce12 Posted June 24, 2012 Posted June 24, 2012 I applied for 20, let's see if I get them. I wasn't aware of .free TLD so I was completely taken by surprise by this thread. I am also concerned that now we have too many TLDs which is making web a chaotic place, does anyone else feel the same? Quote
OsvaldoLuis Posted June 26, 2012 Posted June 26, 2012 I heard about this like 5 or 6 months ago, its good for people that want to start a business or a blog, anything.Its also good for those that dont have a credit card and want a website and cant buy it, i am gonna use it in 2013 hope its not fake Quote
Magic Pixel Posted June 27, 2012 Posted June 27, 2012 (edited) As quoted from the News section on that website: "Amazon and Google will have to square off against each other for control over 21 potential new Top Level Domains, including .FREE it was revealed June, 14th 2012 by ICANN. Three more companies (Minds&Machines, Uniregistry & Donuts Inc.) have applied to operate the upcoming .FREE gTLD. More information will be posted here soon." I personally think they are a bunch of nobodies who are trying to get something out of the .free hype. Right now all domains are showing as "available", including "download", "sex" or "games". What a joke! Edited June 27, 2012 by Magic Pixel Quote
Administrators Nathan Posted June 27, 2012 Administrators Posted June 27, 2012 As quoted from the News section on that website: "Amazon and Google will have to square off against each other for control over 21 potential new Top Level Domains, including .FREE it was revealed June, 14th 2012 by ICANN. Three more companies (Minds&Machines, Uniregistry & Donuts Inc.) have applied to operate the upcoming .FREE gTLD. More information will be posted here soon." I personally think they are a bunch of nobodies who are trying to get something out of the .free hype. Right now all domains are showing as "available", including "download", "sex" or "games". What a joke! Yeah it is, the site will still tell me I got domains that I know others took. Quote
tetutato Posted June 27, 2012 Posted June 27, 2012 Hmm so will all DNS servers accept this domain or will it only be very few like the .pirate domains? :3 Quote
S.O. Price Posted June 28, 2012 Posted June 28, 2012 Gee, this sounded interesting. I had not heard of the .free in the recent past. I guess there is no harm in trying to pick 20 names if they're free. But it doesn't sound like one should rely on them. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out. I'm off to go pick out my names! Quote
Victor Leigh Posted June 28, 2012 Posted June 28, 2012 One moment, please. The extension is 'free' but that doesn't mean 'free' as in you don't have to pay for it, right? So how much is the registration fee for the first year? And for subsequent years? Quote
Administrators Nathan Posted June 28, 2012 Administrators Posted June 28, 2012 One moment, please. The extension is 'free' but that doesn't mean 'free' as in you don't have to pay for it, right? So how much is the registration fee for the first year? And for subsequent years? No they are completely free. Quote
tetutato Posted June 28, 2012 Posted June 28, 2012 No they are completely free. That's what I thought but it does say "free preregistration service for .free" meaning only the preregistration could be free :/ Also I think the site's broken or something. I preregistered google.free and was surprised to see noone took it. Then I tried it just again and it says available :/ Quote
Administrators Nathan Posted June 28, 2012 Administrators Posted June 28, 2012 That's what I thought but it does say "free preregistration service for .free" meaning only the preregistration could be free :/ Also I think the site's broken or something. I preregistered google.free and was surprised to see noone took it. Then I tried it just again and it says available :/ Nope read up further in this thread. It let Tony and I register the same domain as well. So I gotta believe it lets you register anything, then when time comes to give them out whoever registered it first will get that one. Quote
S.O. Price Posted June 28, 2012 Posted June 28, 2012 http://www.dotfree.com/all-the-answers.html would be a good place to go for more info. Technically, right now you can register up to 25 names without paying anything. They will have an extension of .free. At some point in the future you would have to pay money to hold the name. That is, if they still have it to 'give' to you. They don't guarantee anything at this point. At the end of the day, it almost sounds like potentially if you want to hold on to the name, they're going to auction it off to the highest bidder. That is probably why some people are reporting that they KNOW a name is already taken but they are still able to pre-register it for themselves. This company said that they are as 'authorized as any other registrar or institution'. IMO this means that other companies could be allowing customers to pre-register the same names as you are. Nathan 1 Quote
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