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Doesn't even have to be a lot of traffic. They just quietly flag your account after a while. I used their TLDs specifically to host high school projects like a
by noirscape 4y ago
Doesn't even have to be a lot of traffic. They just quietly flag your account after a while. I used their TLDs specifically to host high school projects like a decade ago.
Suddenly, overnight, the DNS got updated and the account got "suspended" (thankfully only after the high school projects were done and over with). I knew it was suspended because while I seemingly wasn't allowed to iterate over the domains list, I was able to see the total amount of domains I had a registration for.
Making an alternate account to try and see if they unregistered the domain (and to see if I could rerequest it) showed them selling the domain for ~$6.
They get away with this due to some clause in their TOS that says that they're the owners of the domain and are just leasing it to you. I'm not sure if that's in-line with broader ICANN rules surrounding domain owner rights (iirc they've actually been suspended a couple times because of this sorta stint), but the company are complete scumbags.
- zinekeller 4y ago> I'm not sure if that's in-line with broader ICANN rules surrounding domain owner rights. Doesn't matter, they're ccTLDs, and if the countries-in-question didn't require that Freenom assign the names to actual users. ICANN is irrelevant here, period.
- noirscape 4y agoICANN iirc still has a group that can tell ccTLD registrars to get their shit together and if the company also handles gTLDs (which iirc freenom does), they can still make that a bureaucratic nightmare for them. It's not one of those things where they can outright say "you can't do that", but it is one of those things where it's "if you don't cooperate we'll make your life hell in other ways".