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Free Registrar co.cc Goes the Way of the Dodo
First time accepted submitter Nexus Unplugged writes "Free domain provider co.cc seems to have quietly and mysteriously disappeared. No official explanation has yet been provided, but a cached copy suggest that they stopped accepting new registrations some time ago. Speculation, however, seems to come to a single conclusion. From the article: 'Due to its free nature (and it's $10 for as many as you want), Co.CC was abused and used for scams and spamming and was even de-listed by Google at one point although they did re-enable it. Getting back to the article on hand a few days ago Co.CC seems to have removed its DNS records which ultimately has stops its own site from working and every sub domain it provided.'
It's worth noting that free domains are still easily obtainable from places like DotTK."
We can't have anything good and free because scumbags will take advantage of it.
If you're okay with a subdomain rather than looking to register directly under a TLD, FreeDNS is another one that's been around for a while, though they target themselves a bit more at people who want a changeable hostname for their dynamic IP (a free alternative to the used-to-be-free-but-now-isn't DynDNS).
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"Quietly and mysteriously disappeared"
The article is written as if the whole thing was somehow shrouded in mistery and nobody could ever find out what happened. Well, my guess is that for very profane reasons such as lack of revenue some ordinary humans (not mysterious aliens) decided to pull the plug. That happens.
give a calm, logical, rational reason for something that happened on the internet!
.wa.us is a good example. You can get seattle.wa.us and other such cities free. It's managed through nwnexus.com. I've always just contacted their sales staff to request forms to register a .seattle.wa.us or .olympia.wa.us for example. They're long, but definitely free.
It is the Illuminati I say. This thing stinks of a conspiracy by the illuminate to take over the world.
It's usually not this blatant, is it?
under the mygbiz.com address.
If I write an NTP server in Tcl/Tk and register it on Dot.TK could I call it ticktock.tcl.tk?
I deny that I have not avoided attaining the opposite of that which I do not want.
At my last job we encountered too many links to scammers and malware from sites on their subdomains via spam and customer applications. We went ahead and blocked *.co.cc and would not approve any potential customer applications if that's where their website was.
If a company wants to do a website on the cheap, domains don't cost much and hosting can be had for $5/mo to free depending on your content.
This is the only reason i send in my $499/yr slashdot subscription to Nigeria.
I don't suppose it had anything to do with how that particular domain is pronounced?
Might be suited to adult sites, but it wouldn't work for everyone.
I used them a few years ago for a site (hosting old software I'd written), had nothing but trouble with them.
They'd periodically suspend the domain without any notification and then a week long game of email pingpong to get it back again.
"Your site was hosting pirated software" really, that was news to me! . When asked to give a URL to the offending page their reason would suddenly change to
"Your site was hosting objectionable content", nope , no pron there either.
Again, ask for a URL to the content in question and it'd change again to hosting malware or sending spam.
Not once would they back up their claims with any proof, just email back a different reason for suspension. Then after they run of reasons they'd reinstate it. .tk domains, that wasn't any better, domain deleted without any reasons given.
Tried swapping to the free
As the old adage goes, you get what you pay for.
.CC should become the Creative Commons domain. All websites under this top level must be forcefully re-mixable with attribution. The world would be a much richer place. The creative commons movement is great and is far more profitable than the licensed content model, if you know how to use it properly.
~ Best man at your service.
I used to have a .tk domain for my website for several months, and I wouldn't recommend it. Everything was fine until a power outage forced my server to shutdown. As soon as the power was back up, I checked my .tk website only to find out that my domain was redirecting to a "you won a free ipad" scam site. I was certain that my dotTk account was hacked and so I wrote an email to the provider. Their response stated that this was in fact, a standard procedure: they have a script that every once in a while verifies that all .tk domains actually host a website. If it finds any domain without a website, and my domain registered as such because of the power outage, it is automatically redirected to a "sponsor" website. They said that the only way to avoid this is to upgrade to a premium account. They eventually restored my domain, but the damage was done. I had to personally call all my users (some of which are not very technical) to warn them about the scammers. Since then i moved to a paid domain (not .tk) and never looked back. You get what you pay for, and if you want a domain that actually works, a free .tk is not a good choice.
I had my personal website up registered there, brrk.co.cc . It wasn't really public, but it was just a fileserver/webserver for my personal use while on the road. Guess I have to go back to the numerical IP now...
"That's either incredibly asinine or the most brilliant troll I've ever read. Not sure which." -Anonymous Coward
...that people can't get their free domains because co.cc has been cut off.
Or is that what this story is about?
blog
There Ain't Such A Thing As Free Co.cc.
They should have positioned themselves as an alternative to .xxx during the years (decade?) when people were fighting about that one. Only problem is for lesbian sites, but they could do things like we.need.no.co.cc.
well i suppose its just about the same as having an angelfire or geocities url but shorter. it felt really amazing though, now domains aren't $50/yr but less than $10 so people have it good these days.