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Ask HN: Prettiest Free Domain

3 points by mfbx9da4 4y ago

I realized today that I've lost my personal domain name. It wasn't set to auto-renew and the warning emails slipped through my inbox. Sad as this was, it's kind of a relief. I hate having to maintain my own domain and it wasn't much more than a calling card. I would still like to host some stuff but not own / pay for a domain. What free services have nice domains that I can use to host my own stuff. * Cloudflare Pages: pages.dev * Firebase: web.app

escaper 3y ago
Just buy a domain and register it for like 10 years you cheapskate...
- beauHD 3y ago
  Yeah what's stopping people doing this? Do they hate 'advance fees' and just want to pay yearly because they consider themselves financially savvy, or what is the issue?
WorldPeas 3y ago
if you don't want to pay, there are services like freenom, but they'll take your page over once you get over a certain number of visitors. I'd recommend just using a static github pages instance pointed to whatever server you have running a backend if you have one. GH pages has(to me) been very reliable and has never once broken
- beauHD 3y ago
  > there are services like freenom Worth reading this HN thread posted just recently: > Freenom (the operator of .tk, .ml, .ga, .cf, .gq TLDs) is falling apart https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34194555 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34194555 I wouldn't rely on them.
  - WorldPeas 3y ago
    ah thanks for the update. It was (awful) while it lasted. I wonder if 000webhost is still around? I used to host my php scripts there as a kid
pestatije 3y ago
.tk, .ml, .ga, .cf, .gq https://www.freenom.com/en/freeandpaiddomains.html https://www.freenom.com/en/freeandpaiddomains.html you still have to renew though
- beauHD 3y ago
  Worth reading this HN thread posted just recently: > Freenom (the operator of .tk, .ml, .ga, .cf, .gq TLDs) is falling apart https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34194555 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34194555 I wouldn't rely on them.

3 points by mfbx9da4 4y ago

escaper 3y ago

Just buy a domain and register it for like 10 years you cheapskate...

beauHD 3y ago
Yeah what's stopping people doing this? Do they hate 'advance fees' and just want to pay yearly because they consider themselves financially savvy, or what is the issue?

WorldPeas 3y ago

if you don't want to pay, there are services like freenom, but they'll take your page over once you get over a certain number of visitors. I'd recommend just using a static github pages instance pointed to whatever server you have running a backend if you have one. GH pages has(to me) been very reliable and has never once broken

beauHD 3y ago
> there are services like freenom Worth reading this HN thread posted just recently: > Freenom (the operator of .tk, .ml, .ga, .cf, .gq TLDs) is falling apart https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34194555 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34194555 I wouldn't rely on them.
- WorldPeas 3y ago
  ah thanks for the update. It was (awful) while it lasted. I wonder if 000webhost is still around? I used to host my php scripts there as a kid

pestatije 3y ago

.tk, .ml, .ga, .cf, .gq https://www.freenom.com/en/freeandpaiddomains.html https://www.freenom.com/en/freeandpaiddomains.html you still have to renew though

beauHD 3y ago
Worth reading this HN thread posted just recently: > Freenom (the operator of .tk, .ml, .ga, .cf, .gq TLDs) is falling apart https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34194555 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34194555 I wouldn't rely on them.