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Perhaps English isn’t your first language or some other issue, but as an example on the homepage under services there is “free and paid domains” with a chart th

Perhaps English isn’t your first language or some other issue, but as an example on the homepage under services there is “free and paid domains” with a chart that explains the difference between the free and paid feature akin to any other freemium service that provides a chart to compare free vs paid accounts/features. It’s also in the footer, they also have a price chart under services and in the footer, they also show you these options when checking out. I guess what everyone is arguing here is that they shouldn’t allow any free registration but charge a discounted rate the first year like every other domain registrar. https://www.freenom.com/en/freeandpaiddomains.html https://www.freenom.com/en/freeandpaiddomains.html

matkoniecz 5y ago
now it claims that every single domain name is not available. But when I checked the main flow starting from the main page - there was no clear mention that "your" free domain is not actually yours
- throwawaycities 5y ago
  I have no idea what you are trying to say, but a domain name is never “yours” they are all licensed. In the page I linked for you which is available on their homepage menu and footer on every page the chart explaining the difference between the free and paid domains contains at least 3 rows on point: > Legal rights: Free: Registrant acts as user of domain name, not as licensee > Transfer rights: Free: None > WHOIS: Free: Freenom or one of its subsidiaries appears as the licensee in the WHOIS Disclosures aside it is immaterial to the more important point, Freenom is not going into user account and taking domain names (free or paid) and selling them to 3rd parties. The review complaining that this happened is fake, hence why they can’t establish this actually happened. Freenom is a legit company with real assets, they are a ICANN licensee of its own TLDs and official servicer of a few country TLDs, if they actually stole someone’s high traffic or high value domain name and sold it to a 3rd party as alleged in the fake review, then the user could sue for damages and specific performance to get the domain back just the same as if Godaddy or Namecheap or any other registrar were to just steal user domain names.

matkoniecz 5y ago

now it claims that every single domain name is not available. But when I checked the main flow starting from the main page - there was no clear mention that "your" free domain is not actually yours

throwawaycities 5y ago
I have no idea what you are trying to say, but a domain name is never “yours” they are all licensed. In the page I linked for you which is available on their homepage menu and footer on every page the chart explaining the difference between the free and paid domains contains at least 3 rows on point: > Legal rights: Free: Registrant acts as user of domain name, not as licensee > Transfer rights: Free: None > WHOIS: Free: Freenom or one of its subsidiaries appears as the licensee in the WHOIS Disclosures aside it is immaterial to the more important point, Freenom is not going into user account and taking domain names (free or paid) and selling them to 3rd parties. The review complaining that this happened is fake, hence why they can’t establish this actually happened. Freenom is a legit company with real assets, they are a ICANN licensee of its own TLDs and official servicer of a few country TLDs, if they actually stole someone’s high traffic or high value domain name and sold it to a 3rd party as alleged in the fake review, then the user could sue for damages and specific performance to get the domain back just the same as if Godaddy or Namecheap or any other registrar were to just steal user domain names.