3 Free domain name websites : Advantages and Disadvantages

It is a well known fact that a Domain Name adds a profession touch to your website/brand. But, it is sometimes a case of financial crisis or some other problem that a web publisher is not able to purchase a Generic Top-Level Domain for his brand or Website in general.

In such cases a need for free Domain names is required. So, I am going to tell you about three Services which allow you to register a Domain name for free. I mentioned above that these services will allow you to register a Domain name for free, but another bonus is that they will also allow you to manage your DNS entries like CNAME, A, MX, NS records for free! Now I will describe the benefits and Demerits of each of these service for you to decide which one is the Best suited for you.

CO.CC Advantages:

• Zero Renewal fees for Personal Domain names
• Allows registrations of two domain names for free
• Web forwarding facility available
• If you donate to co.cc, you can register 100 more free domains in your account
• You can earn money by referrals

CO.CC Disadvantages:

• If you place Ads on the Domain name, then you have to pay 3$ as renewal fee of the Domain name every year. If you don’t pay the required amount then your Domain name will be deleted
• The domain name will be suspended without notice if it contains any illegal/ spam/ adult material
• Not all the Domain names are free to register. Some domain names need you to pay a small amount to register
• You need to Set-Up your Domain name before 48 hours of Registering, else it will be deleted

CO.TV Advantages:

• Allows registrations of three domain names for free
• Web Forwarding Facility available
• Site Builder functionality available

CO.TV Disadvantages:

• Domain name is registered only for one Year. You need to re-register it after one-year.
• Registering a Premium Domain name costs you 199$ flat.[Premium domain names are usually keywords which are short, can easily be remembered, has multiple meanings or generic quality names]
• The domain name will be suspended if any violent/ humiliating/ illegal/ spam/ ad*lt material is hosted on it
• You need to Set-Up your Domain name before 24 hours of Registering, else it will be deleted
• No referral system for earning through affiliates
• They can Anytime convert any free services to paid services, remove a part or all of the services temporarily or permanently

UNI.CC Advantages:

• Domain name is registered for Life-Time. Forget about renewals!

UNI.CC Disadvantages:

• Only one domain name can be registered per IP Address
• UNI.CC might serve Advertisements on your website (in some cases)
• Your Domain name will be deleted without notice if you don’t get more than 10 Hits in 3 months duration
• Domain name is deleted if any defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, obscene, infringing, or threatening content is hosted on it
• Members need to pay a small maintenance fee to keep their sites free of banner Ads
• You cannot manage CNAME entries in your DNS settings

Even though there are many more services like these ones, most of them are spam sites. Keep in mind that these services allow you to Manage your Domain names completely by giving access to DNS setting and these services are completely different from URL redirection services.

How To Get Free .com Domain Under Yourname.com

Recently Google have launched Wisconsin Get Your Business Online Program . Wisconsin Get Your Business Online is designed to make it easy, free and fast for any business to get online. Any small business program with small and limited resources and products can now get their business online with the world within few minutes for free. Yes you got it right , you are going to bring your business online for free.
You don’t have to pay anything for this. It is provided by Google. Google partnered with Intuit Company, the Association of Small Business Development Centers, SCORE, and Meetup and they are hosting for free to help small business owners to to get started with their own basic .com website. The project is launched as WisconsinGetOnline (Wisconsin Get Your Business Online). This is a free program from Google. You can get signup for it from any country and get your business online easily and fast.
They are providing following things with free.com domain :

• Free, easy-to-build Intuit website
• Free customized domain name
• Free web hosting for one year
• Free online tools and training
• A free customized domain name and hosting
• $75 in Google AdWords credit

After reading about information and the features provided by it , you might be interested to get your own free.com domain. So now I am going to show you how to get your .com domain for free.  Let’s begin the process.

Easy way to get Free .com Domain name registration for 1 year :

• At first you need to Go to Wisconsin homepage via this link and there you need to click on GET YOUR FREE WEBSITE button.
• Now you need to Sign up for your free Intuit website. Then you will get following screen.

• If you have Google account then you can sign in with it else sign up for a Google account and then sign in with that account.
• Allow access to it and then click on Continue button.
• Next you need to you intuit websites password. Fill the details and accept term and conditions and click on continue button.

• Then you will be redirected to Intuit Website to register a free .com domain name. Click continue as shown in the above screenshot. Then you will get the following screen.

It contains three steps. Select first one i.e – Choose a domain (www.yourname.com) for your website. You will get the following screen. If you are not sure, what domain name you should buy, I suggest you to read how to select great domain name for business & 5 domain name suggestion tools.

 

 Since you are registering a new domain name so , make sure that the domain name you are going to register is available. You can do this by entering your desired domain name under “Get a New Domain” and clicking on Check Availability  button. If it is available then you will be presented with following screen.

 

Now all you need to do it click on Get Domain button. Then you will be asked to enter your contact information as shown in the belwo screenshot.

Enter your contact information and click on Save & Continue button. Then you will be ask to review your information. Review it , agree to the terms of service and  click on submit button.  Note : You must uncheck the Yes (Recommended) option for domain privacy because if you check it you have to pay $1 per month.

As soon as you submit it for review you will get a pop up page asking for your Billing Information. They are asking this to protect against fraudulent activities. Though your website and .com domain name are free but they still need your billing information. Enter your address details and debit/credit card information in this page. Now the real problem comes. Many of us don’t have a real debit/credit card, so to solve this problem you need to create a virtual visa credit card. You can create a virtual visa from Entropay.com. Note : You can also use other websites to create virtual visa. If you don’t want to create virtual visa then use the following virtual visa details to fill the payment options and you will be able to purchase your domain for free.

• Name on card : Jackie Chan
• Card type : Visa
• Credit card number : 4067424695632061
• Expiration date : 12-2012
• Card security number : 279

 

Now just enter your virtual visa details in the payment page and click on purchase button. Now you have successfully created your website with a free .com domain name registration. It may take an hour to activate. After it is activated, you can use their website builder to create a new website or just change the name servers by going in the domain manager to use with other webhost.

I hope this tip would help you to save some money and increase your online presence. If you find this post useful, don’t forget to share it on Google plus and Facebook.

By A Custom Domain

many of us using blogger blogspot blog for blogging, because it is easy to use and editable.
but after a while you want to your blog look more professional and more credible by Publish on a custom domain .

because some people think that yourblogname.blogspot.com used by newbies only, That’s not always true, of course.

there is 2 ways to do it,

1- Point your already owned and registered domain name to your blog.
2- buy new domain name via your blogger account.

we’ll now talk about number 2.

buy new domain name via your blogger account.

now blogger makes it easier to convert your Blogspot Account Into A .com Domain

when you register a domain name via blogger account your Domain will be registered through a Google partner and cost $10 (USD) for one year.and as part of registration, you will also get a Google Apps account for your new domain.

and the great deal here is that YourBlogName.blogspot.com will redirect to your new custom domain. so you won’t leave your readers behind!

the first thing to to is to log into your blogger account,
Then got to Settings >>> Publishing

FIND : Switch to: • Custom Domain

and click Custom Domain

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