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A bit off-topic, but this is the first .tk domain I've seen in maybe ten years. When I was a teenager and they were giving them away for free all my friends had

by maaaats 10y ago

A bit off-topic, but this is the first .tk domain I've seen in maybe ten years. When I was a teenager and they were giving them away for free all my friends had one, the memories.

lewisjoe 10y ago
It still is free. You see I'm quiet broke :p
- gtirloni 10y ago
  That are a lot of gotchas with free .tk domains though (Google is full of stories).
  - godot 10y ago
    Do you have any examples? I registered a free .tk domain for dev purposes and it has worked fine for a while just like any domains (and I didn't have to do anything special about it), but for some reasons it suddenly became unreachable for a while from certain computers (my house, office, etc.) but stayed reachable for others (Facebook's servers, for example). It appears to have recently come back in office here. I have no clue why.
    - dylz 10y ago
      IIRC they used to be mass registered for malware repeatedly, some ISPs (comcast / twc?) have int he past dropped resolving the entire tk namespace at times. Some A/V and endpoint protection solutions also completely block ie/cf/ga/ml/etc that are 90% malware.
      - godot 10y ago
        The dropped resolving thing must've been what happened with mine. I verified that this is currently still the case at home for me. At office it's fine.
- Goopplesoft 10y ago
  Email me (profile) if you'd like me to buy you one and transfer ownership to you.
  - lewisjoe 10y ago
    Thank you! I think I can manage buying a `.co.in` domain, sometime soon. Now that I see it's useful for quiet a few people, I'm convinced it's worth a buy. Thanks for the offer. You are awesome!
eriknstr 10y ago
Yeah, I was thinking "oh man, dotTK, the memories" :)
lukashed 10y ago
The scammers here [0] used a .tk domain as well. Might be because there's hardly any identification needed for the registration if I see it correctly. [0] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-hackers-broke-into-john-podesta-and-colin-powells-gmail-accounts http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-hackers-broke-into-john...
0x54MUR41 10y ago
I remember using .tk domain when I wanted to have a personal website but don't have enough money. I built it from scratch by following the tutorial from a book. Testing locally and deploying on free hosting service, like Tripod (Lycos). I don't know free web hosting like Tripod (Lycos) still exists or not because time has been changes since static web page and its service (GitHUub, BitBucket, and GitLab) appear. Yeah, it's memories.

by maaaats 10y ago

A bit off-topic, but this is the first .tk domain I've seen in maybe ten years. When I was a teenager and they were giving them away for free all my friends had one, the memories.

lewisjoe 10y ago

It still is free. You see I'm quiet broke :p

gtirloni 10y ago
That are a lot of gotchas with free .tk domains though (Google is full of stories).
- godot 10y ago
  Do you have any examples? I registered a free .tk domain for dev purposes and it has worked fine for a while just like any domains (and I didn't have to do anything special about it), but for some reasons it suddenly became unreachable for a while from certain computers (my house, office, etc.) but stayed reachable for others (Facebook's servers, for example). It appears to have recently come back in office here. I have no clue why.
  - dylz 10y ago
    IIRC they used to be mass registered for malware repeatedly, some ISPs (comcast / twc?) have int he past dropped resolving the entire tk namespace at times. Some A/V and endpoint protection solutions also completely block ie/cf/ga/ml/etc that are 90% malware.
    - godot 10y ago
      The dropped resolving thing must've been what happened with mine. I verified that this is currently still the case at home for me. At office it's fine.
Goopplesoft 10y ago
Email me (profile) if you'd like me to buy you one and transfer ownership to you.
- lewisjoe 10y ago
  Thank you! I think I can manage buying a `.co.in` domain, sometime soon. Now that I see it's useful for quiet a few people, I'm convinced it's worth a buy. Thanks for the offer. You are awesome!

eriknstr 10y ago

Yeah, I was thinking "oh man, dotTK, the memories" :)

lukashed 10y ago

The scammers here [0] used a .tk domain as well. Might be because there's hardly any identification needed for the registration if I see it correctly. [0] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-hackers-broke-into-john-podesta-and-colin-powells-gmail-accounts http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-hackers-broke-into-john...

0x54MUR41 10y ago

I remember using .tk domain when I wanted to have a personal website but don't have enough money. I built it from scratch by following the tutorial from a book. Testing locally and deploying on free hosting service, like Tripod (Lycos). I don't know free web hosting like Tripod (Lycos) still exists or not because time has been changes since static web page and its service (GitHUub, BitBucket, and GitLab) appear. Yeah, it's memories.