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It's worth your while to buy another domain. You could keep the .tk running. Some sites shadowban .tk, Reddit probably still does. Search engines probably down
by PostOnce 4y ago
It's worth your while to buy another domain. You could keep the .tk running.
Some sites shadowban .tk, Reddit probably still does. Search engines probably downrank it. That's because it's free and has been used for a lot of spammy stuff.
This makes it harder for people to share and harder for people to find. That might just put a damper on your hobby, but it might also mean you won't get random emails about jobs you might want. (If you're interested in that.)
I only mention it because I learned that the hard way many years ago.
- moffkalast 4y agoIs it worth it though? Renewing a domain is yet another bottomless pit you throw money into, along with server hosting. For a site without ads or other revenue it's just more expense.
- 1kurac 4y agoThe thing with TK is, it costs nothing upfront, but the internet is bursting with countless reports that if your site eventually becomes popular, TK domain admins might outright snatch it from you for their own ads, without the possibility of seeking retribution as it's all in their TOS ... https://getfreedomain.name/domain/tk/ https://getfreedomain.name/domain/tk/
- actionfromafar 4y agoStatic hosting can be found free on sites like gatsby.
- moffkalast 4y agoOk yeah now that I think about it there are ways to host for free, github pages also comes to mind. Not exactly elegant solutions though. Makes the domain expense even worse in that respect.
- layer8 4y agoStandard domains (com/net/org) are super cheap, around $1 per month.
- kfajdsl 4y ago> Not exactly elegant solutions though. How come? I think services like GitHub pages are a great way to host a static site.
- moffkalast 4y agoBy large you tend to be severely limited by size and traffic. Github's also very slow to update changes and can't host private repos either. I remember using 000webhost back in the day, their free plan had an uptime of "maybe". It was never up when I actually needed it.
- samjmck 4y agoimihajlov.com would cost around 10 USD per month and as another reply mentioned, static site hosting is free. I guess it's a bottomless pit but it's "only" 10 USD and it's nice to have.
- climb_stealth 4y agoSurely you mean 10USD per year? If you are paying that per month just for the domain you are being ripped off :)
- samjmck 4y agoCorrect, I meant per year
- moffkalast 4y agoSure, but that would add up to $1200 in a decade of hosting which is substantial and the timespan one'd likely run it for. People buy a $1k PC every 5 years and consider it a large expense, why not this? I can find it for much lower though, like $8/year? Then again that's on namecheap who then raise rates when you go in to renew lol.
- PostOnce 4y agoThe site is already being hosted, I was only talking about a domain name, so at ~$10/year or whatever it is now, that's only $100 a decade over whatever he is paying now for hosting using a free domain. That's 10 years of benefiting from a real domain name for the cost of... a very long list of pointless $100 goods and services. It's a couple of cents per day.
- OJFord 4y agoI'm sure GP meant /year, not month. Pricing's always (as far as I've ever seen) per year for one thing, but also it's not 120 (or more) unless your name's Ford or something. (Damn it.)
- Gordonjcp 4y ago
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoYeah but what if it’s a cool domain? Then it’s a cool bottomless pit.
- moffkalast 4y agoThe cooler the name, the deeper the pit.
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoI’m very proud of my site (and the URL) reboot dot love, which I haven’t done much with lately but I want to! Also yeah I need to fix my SSL cert. the server is giving me grief. Bottomless pit of time and money yaaay.
- 867-5309 4y agoSSL certs can be free and auto-renewing. set and forget
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoYep. Server is just having some weird issues. I’m using Lets Encrypt but something isn’t right.
- Gordonjcp 4y agoI need to find something to do with onlyfandans.com, even if it's probably only funny in Scotland.
- PostOnce 4y agoIt very well might be, if you value publicity for your hobby, the greater reach might be worth it to you. If you can get 10,000 readers instead of 90 readers because your links are shareable... If we think about potential dollars, though: The bottomless pit isn't very deep, it's a few dollars a year. If it nets you one single short-contract offer (nevermind a job) or worthwhile contact because someone found your work, it'll pay itself off many, many times over. Let's say one person found him and offered him a $3000 contract to do some electronic thing for a week, well, then the cost of the domain and hosting won't matter for the rest of his life. The mere fact that this guy has an oscilloscope out means he has skills that someone might want to contact him about in relation to his blog. Limiting yourself for want of a $10/year domain name is probably not a great idea, and again, it's something I learned the hard way.
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- teddyh 4y agoI know of exactly one site which had a .tk TLD. Here’s why they switched to a .com in 2005: https://tailsteak.com/archive.php?num=388 https://tailsteak.com/archive.php?num=388 “tailsteak.com Alright, so I'm finally fed up with Tokelau. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice island, but they just aren't answering my mail. I suppose most of you have noticed, by now, the fifteen-second ads that present you with beautiful women and fish when you surf to tailsteak.tk. Those are not my ads. I do not obtain revenue from them. Tokelau's domain name referral service just started putting them up there without so much as a by-your-leave. I have contacted their tech support and enquired if, perhaps, they might consider removing them for customers willing to pay a certain amount. They have not responded. Of course, I have had access to tailsteak.com for some time now. So henceforth, I will be directing my viewers there. It's the same site, the same host, and, in truth, the .tk address has been sending you there for months. But now it's official. Note the change in title graphic: tailsteak.com”
- marginalia_nu 4y agoYeah. Cheap TLDs are very strongly correlated with spam. Although I think .icu and .xyz are far bigger offenders than .tk these days.