Can you really register a domain name for free anywhere?
You may have a great idea for a domain name, and you want to register it before someone else does. Or, you may simply want to register your own first name and surname, or a child's name. Perhaps you've seen a place name for a location on the map which is about to get a major residential development, or a new mall, and have discovered that the domain name is not taken yet.
Or perhaps you have read the advice which professional domain-name traders have been giving out recently: do your research, buy good quality two- or three-word generic domains that are unregistered, keep them for a while, then sell them to a company which sells the product or service related to that name. For them, it would be a minor cost of doing business compared with building their factory. For you, it could be a windfall.
But with domains each costing about $9-$10 a year to register with the most reliable online providers, such speculation may end up being costly. This is because you may have to buy hundreds of names to be sure of having a few which will eventually become valuable.
At that point, your thoughts turn to free domain registration - can it be found anywhere?
The answer to that question is yes, but...
Domain names are valuable commodities, especially the shorter ones, and to expect to get safe, secure registration of a domain name for nothing is not realistic.
You can get free domain names, but only as part of another service, which would normally be the hosting of the site itself. There are many very good hosting services which will pay for the registration of the domain you want, if you sign up to host the site with them, for at least a year. Such services are often very reliable, with all the hosting features you need, and come at a very low cost, so the addition of the free domain registration could be seen as giving you your domain for 'free'.
Another way of getting your domain for free would be to use a 'cash parking' service. A domain is 'parked' when it is purchased, but not developed - it is simply left with the registration service. You can opt to allow advertisements to be placed on the page. If a visitor clicks on the ad, you get a share of the click-through revenue. Though you are unlikely to make a lot of money this way, what you do make may be enough to cover your annual registration fee. Again, you could see this as getting the domain registered for 'free', since you are getting revenue without doing any work.
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Scott Kintraw writes about all the ways the Internet can enhance your life.
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