How to Get a Free Domain Name

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 a free domain name registration. Finding out what they are is not difficult. With the use of a few strategies a business or organization can by-pass the difficulties and extra fees charged for registering a domain name. There are many online and also local companies that offer domain name registration along with a hosting service for a website. The features of both are very similar.

Here are few useful tips to get 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 best way to obtain a domain name for free from a host company is to use them for the registration of that name along with using their web hosting service, and other options such as email registration, and if available design.

* Don't neglect looking to your local area for web hosting companies. There are many advantages to using a local company. The ability to communicate issues and concerns face-to-face, or deal with problems in person is just some of those advantages. Many small local companies also offer free domain name registration.

* See if the particular web host gives domain names and yearly upkeep with a package plan. This allows you to secure your personal data and information on you or your business without the public being able to access it. People trying to take advantage of public websites happen quite a lot. If that occurs your webhost will contact you and let you know of a breech, or an attempted breech of your privacy.

* These days, there are some free TLD Domains. Find Free TLD Domain Name Service providers and then sign up for their various offers in order to gain points. Gaining more points ensures getting more number of 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 some unique features for its clients. They have redirection service for free to point your existing website to the name. It is more commonly known as domain forwarding. Other services included are URL masking, Path forwarding, and URL cloaking. Some special features they provide are Meta Tag, and Favicon support. The only thing they require for the service is a link back from your web site to their main site. That is a very small price to pay for free services like these.

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

This company provides terrific tools for site building and TLD domains as well as their free domain names. The also offer redirection and other options. The only drawback to Uni.cc is that they do not provide hosing, ftp, or email hosting at this time. They are a great source of domain names and redirection for free if you already have website space.

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

It is a free website creation and website service provided by Google offering .googlepages.com domains. They provide 100 Megabytes of file and page storage, 41 web templates, page layout tools, HTML, CSS and JavaScript editing, and AutoSave option etc. A user is entitles for registering three unique sub domains. The best feature of this free domain name service provider is that there are no advertisements of any kind.

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

C-o.in is another effective free provider of domain names. They also include free URL redirection and sub domain forwarding as a free service and they offer the services in 4 available formats for ease of use.

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