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Unrelated to the article but seeing .tk brings back many memories. As a kid without a bank account let's alone an international credit card (VISA/Mastercard), d
by thangngoc89 3y ago
Unrelated to the article but seeing .tk brings back many memories. As a kid without a bank account let's alone an international credit card (VISA/Mastercard), dot.tk is the only way to put a website online with your name. I created countless of websites with .tk for classmates, school and families.
- miki123211 3y agoWhat are kids using these days? Serious question, Heroku and .tk were such amazing services if you weren't old enough to get a credit card.
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- captn3m0 3y agoI used .co.nr alongside .tk for a while, before moving to .co.cc, and then finally managing a way to buy my domain.
- giancarlostoro 3y agoI think I had co.nr too! I just dont remember if it was like .tk or if it was one of those webhosts.
- jszymborski 3y agoI definitely had a .co.nr domain before a .tk. I think I also remember (I was likely 13, so its been a while) that they had an "English" test question on the sign up form that read something like "A Britney Spears is a:" and one of the options was "Hamburger". Looking back this could have been to slow robots down, but I distinctly remember one if the terms being you speak and host English content. Another service I used a lot was " dominosfree" which had a bunch of .gs domains that looked like CC-tlds. I used .ca.gs a lot.
- tamimio 3y agoAh, co.cc, the tld that was full of php reverse shells!
- creatonez 3y ago.co.nr was strange because it put your page inside of an iframe and required advertisement of the service.
- captn3m0 3y agoYeah, the cloaking was annoying - navigation across pages wouldn’t update the URL.
- 101008 3y agoSame here. .tk was the only one back then that allowed you to have your own domain name without subdomains. My memory is that: 1. freeserver.com/~userna <- This was the first URl you could have, sometimes with something inside another directory (freeserver.com/users/u/~usernam). 2. username.freeserver.com <- This wasn't that bad but it didn't look professional. Tripod used to do this. 3. username.fs.com <-- A service with a short domain that provided free subdomains. This was similar to 2 but shorter. Some of them allowed you to chose the domian part. 4. username.tk <-- Among all the free options, this was the best one by far. Then we grew up a bit and started paying domains :')
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoFriend of mine had a .tk domain for a while, last one he used was a .aa.am domain for his Minecraft server, lol.
- giancarlostoro 3y agoIm trying to remember I think it was 8m.com or something like that? Which also let you have stuff like username.8m.com its probably gone now. I also miss tripod, not sure if its still around how it used to be. Angelfire comes to mind too.
- moltar 3y agoOh ya. I had my first website on 8m.com still available in the archives!! Best days!
- davchana 3y agoThose sites are still up, the control panel is at freeservers.com my Site davinder.8m.net is still up after 22 years. I chose .net because it was cooler than .com :)
- giancarlostoro 3y agoHah! Thats awesome, I don’t recall any of the names I used to be honest, its been too many years.
- syuil 3y agoOh man, this brings back memories from high school! .tk was a blessing for us.
- DaSHacka 3y agoSame here! I remember registering a .tk domain for a school project I was working on at the time, my friends were all so impressed when I showed them it was available as a website they could visit in their browser
- lnxg33k1 3y agoIn italy we had 3000.it https://web.archive.org/web/20010331143129/http://www.klimanet.3000.it/ https://web.archive.org/web/20010331143129/http://www.kliman... SPOILER: I didn’t become a webdesigner
- UnlockedSecrets 3y agoBut did you become a webmaster?
- rightbyte 3y ago"Copyright © by klimato ® All Right Reserved" Heh. I remember thinking '©' and '®' being cool letters. I put it on every page since it looked pro. I guess you didn't actually register the "brand"?
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoI believe you don't have to do anything to claim copyright, other than make it yourself. One vague legal source I just read says that adding the copyright symbol and notice means you may be entitled to more damages if someone infringes on your copyright though.
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- cqqxo4zV46cp 3y agoGod. I’d forgotten all about .tk until reading this comment. What an amazing time.
- tamimio 3y agoI remember flexing on my friends that the google site I had got a proper name with .tk!
- xeromal 3y agoI remember in the early 90s telling Mom that I built my own website. Mom was like noway that's impossible. I can't remember exactly where it was but it was like zoogatyler1.go.com or something. I think it was owned by Disney? I must have been around 7 or 8 but I remember being so excited. I think it was more of a homepage than anything. I started delving into those .tk sites when I was around 11 or 12 probably.
- stef25 3y agoI launched one on a compuserve domain (I think) around the same time. Built it with FrontPage Express that came for free on a cd with a magazine my dad bought. Day after I launched it I had like 20 emails from random people with questions & comments about the site, crazy. Build it and they will come was def a thing. Later on in the UK I put a site on a madasafish domain.
- atum47 3y agoI used to host my websites wherever and then having a redirect to it. Two I remember was pagina.de/dr.enima (roughly translates to site of dr.enigma, my nickname back then) and i.am/supermatrix - a website dedicated to the movie the matrix which I love. I think both of those pages were hosted in geocities and had pretty long urls...
- atum47 3y agoIf i recall correctly, i use frames with size 0 on the top and 100% on the bottom, making that annoying banner invisible
- wnevets 3y agoI remember switching to cjb.net because you could get free wildcard email accounts for your domain.
- a1o 3y agoNow that is a name I haven't heard in a long time. I had a Dragon Ball Z website using that domain, feels so long ago.
- p3rls 3y agoIt's interesting seeing it parallels the problems with .tks today-- I remember using cjb.net to make my own LOVE@AOL websites and phish AOL users telling them that a crush liked their account. Easiest money a 12 year old ever made.
- xyst 3y agosame - I remember hosting a small web server from a crappy pc at my parents house and using a .tk to serve the site. Probably not the smartest thing to do at the time since I may have opened up all ports on the router to get it to work, lol. No https. No security. No moderation. Copy and pasted some html from a site that I thought was cool, search and replaced text to make it my own. It was kind of like a microblog before twitter, fb, ig, blogspot, tumblr.
- accrual 3y agoMy favorite was .uni.cc, I had a couple of those free domains back in the day.
- dpacmittal 3y agoDid you also use 000webhost.com with .tk domains like me?
- mmsimanga 3y agoIn South Africa you could get a za.net domain for free. They stopped new registrations quite some time back as the spam era of the internet was getting started. I still have my domain and use it for all sorts of different things. From email to experiments. Name server changes are still done through email.
- rldjbpin 3y agoi share a similar story but today we don't seem to have any alternatives. it is a shame really but i wonder if there is something else that does not involve freenom today.