They also promise to notify you before your domain expires, but don't, and only allow you to renew free domains shortly before expiry. I think they also may dis

They also promise to notify you before your domain expires, but don't, and only allow you to renew free domains shortly before expiry. I think they also may disable/release your domain, also without warning, if your web server serves errors. If you need a throwaway domain for some joke project, sure, but they make their free domains as hard to use as possible to get you to pay, and once you pay, you might as well pay any of the more competent (and more likely to still be around tomorrow) competitors. My current go-to "I need to host this somewhere with a reasonable name" is Cloudflare with its pages.dev service. You can just upload a ZIP file and get free hosting and a something.pages.dev subdomain.