Re: free domain names?

de Franklin 05/22/2006 04:12

On 22 May 2006, Al Klein<rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote:

> On Mon, 22 May 2006 01:39:11 +0100, Franklin <franksays@nomail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Are there any decent offers anywhere for a free domain name?
>
> Are you looking for a domain name (yourname.com) or a web host
> (someplace to upload your web pages)?
>
> Unless you live in a country that registers domain names for free,
> they're not free. You have to pay the registering agency to
> register the one you want.
>
> Web hosting is free on many sites, but you usually "pay" by
> subjecting your users to ads. You can buy ad-free hosting for as
> little as $6/month (maybe even cheaper).
>
>>Actually, I would like a domain name which I could point at the
>>webspace I already have.
>
> Any host can have a page pointing anywhere - an unhosted domain
> name doesn't "point" or do anything else, it's just an entry in a
> database.
>

Hi Al, I am thinking of something slightly different. I am thinking
of those domain names which have been prepared and which are
specifically for pointing at a web page on another domain (such as
http://kick.me/to//FRED).