[aldo_14]

Does such a thing still exist?

 I used to have a domain name reggied which mapped to my homesite (actually me 5-a-sides teams' site), but no longer.  (now some bastard has stolen fc-mabozaritchie.com, too)

would be nice to have one for ****s and giggles

[Stealth]

if there was such thing as free domain name registring, it wouldn't last long from all the traffic and requests it'd get.

[Stealth]

uhhhhh if you're looking for something like *your name*.*whatever*.com, there's still sites that do that.  but it's hardly "your own domain"

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Stealth
uhhhhh if you're looking for something like *your name*.*whatever*.com, there's still sites that do that.  but it's hardly "your own domain"

It's just the name redirect i'm interested in, to clarify.

[Stealth]

right, but if you're looking for www.aldo_14.com or any other root domain, you're not going to find one for free.  there are companies that offer aldo_14.hardlightproductions.com or aldo_14.whatever.com.  one i registered about two years ago was www.stealth.mirrorz.com.

let me know

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Stealth
right, but if you're looking for www.aldo_14.com or any other root domain, you're not going to find one for free.  there are companies that offer aldo_14.hardlightproductions.com or aldo_14.whatever.com.  one i registered about two years ago was www.stealth.mirrorz.com.

let me know

I didn;t think so.  I used to have 2 domain names... one was with my then-ISP (this was just a basic dailup one, i.e. pay-per-minute at normal rates) www.world-of-aldo.co.uk, and the second was simply a redirector which linked the address www.fc-mabozaritchie.com to a page on the former site.

In both cases it looks like both companies have either dropped that service, or simply went under.  

(I lost the 2 names because I didn't want to pay a reggie fee after a year...after all, would you? )

[Stealth]

ooh.  but you had to pay for them regardless, right?  maybe not directly, but in some way or form.

i'm still positive there's no place you can just go and register a domain for free though.  InterNIC owns every single domain in the world, and leases them out (as far as i know), so somehow, someone's going to have to pay InterNIC, whether your ISP does it (some ISPs give you a domain when you sign up) or someone, but no one's going to do it for free.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Stealth
ooh.  but you had to pay for them regardless, right?  maybe not directly, but in some way or form.

i'm still positive there's no place you can just go and register a domain for free though.  InterNIC owns every single domain in the world, and leases them out (as far as i know), so somehow, someone's going to have to pay InterNIC, whether your ISP does it (some ISPs give you a domain when you sign up) or someone, but no one's going to do it for free.

Had to pay after a year to keep it/either, yeah.  For one of them (the former) it was part of an ISP package, but I only had to actually use that account to connect when I updated that site (i.e. for FTP access).  So it was effectively free, because it cost the same as my other dail-up account.

[Darkage]

maby this wil help you...

Dyndns

[Solatar]

www.dot.tk

Not exactly www.myname.com, but it's kinda useful. Thought I'd mention it...

[Xelion]

Originally posted by Stealth
uhhhhh if you're looking for something like *your name*.*whatever*.com, there's still sites that do that.  but it's hardly "your own domain"

Those are sub domains and usually don't come free anymore in most circumstances, they cost money with some hosting providers, some offer a certain amount and some are unlimited.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Xelion

Those are sub domains and usually don't come free anymore in most circumstances, they cost money with some hosting providers, some offer a certain amount and some are unlimited.

they still come free.

www.filetap.com
www.mirrorz.com
www.alturl.com
www.spyw.com
www.funurl.com
www.2Ya.com
www.vze.com
www.shorturl.com
www.123redirect.com
www.y11.net
www.1st.to
www.asokodes.com
www.rename.net
www.200c.net/main/
www.address.at
www.cjb.net
www.hotredirect.com
www.isfunky.com
www.magnadirect.com
www.shorturl.com
www.v3.com
www.zwap.to
shoot, even ****.hardlightproductions.com

yeah there's still a ton out there, and they're still free

[Xelion]

obviously all these providers have accounts that have the unlimited *subdomains then thanks for the list anyways