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Ugh, that's terrible! I wish there was a decent free alternative to freenom. Anyways, that's for the heads up!
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freenom is very bad free domain provider.
they will suspend your domain if inactive or if have good traffic, so we have no choice
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Noe I can tell that when you use something that is free, you can not expect much ... but there are many premium services that you can expect similar problems too...
Freenom works pretty decent, considering that they are free domain provider.
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Wow, I didn't know about Freenom's ICANN issues! That's serious... It's amazing stuff like that isn't more well-known.
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With such low pricing on paid domains, I really don't see why someone would choose to go with a domain provider that has problems... Take GoDaddy for example, they provide domains for as low as 5$/year (depending on the extension) :)
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I recently was unable to register new domains at Freenom. I haven't tried since, but I've always had a good experience with their customer support. They usually get back to me quickly, and if not, within 24 hours. I opened a ticket about it and haven't received an email back, yet, but I probably have email notifications turned off. I usually opt out of notifications. Personal choice of mine. I'll try again soon if I have the time. A lot going on lately between being laid off and looking for more work.
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I use the freedom to have a good time and never had any problems. I think they have a great demand and often end up experiencing some technical problems, but should be all temporary.
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I'm gonna keep my fingers crossed so that in a few months when it's time to renew my .TK domain, it will be smooth sailing and they don't give me issues. I've been hearing about people losing their domains and just general horror stories. If I had the extra money, i'd buy a regular domain but money is rare lately, what comes in, goes right out but such is life...
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Freenom... i have an odd story about them.
I stumbled upon their existence when i was making a website for a school project and I took a fancy .tk domain. This all worked nice and since i learned how to make websites, I wanted to continue at home on my raspberry. So a week or 2 after the project at school ended I tried to get another domain name for my own experiments. Turns out they had placed me on a blacklist, where i could not register new domains...
So i just made a new account, and got a domain name anyway! Although i recently discovered that this account cannot register new domains anymore. I filed a ticket about this, and they said that the system placed me on the list and it probably has a reason to do so, but they can't tell me what it is. And it will also take me off the list as soon as it feels like it!
So i guess I'll just keep making new accounts whenever i need a new domain, unless anyone here knows how to get off their list?
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Hi, I am also a freenom member and I have created few domain names but some of them do not get enough hits or visitor. Now, Neither I can create new domain name nor I can delete my previous domains. Also they delete one of my domain which was hosted with blogger. As a issue of this they show we do not support free host.
My question is how can I create new domain from freenom in this situation.
If anyone knows, please help me.
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Well everything is automated and if there is any potential buyer for your domain, then you will receive an automated notification message giving an excuse for the termination or deactivation of your domain where in this case they just simply tell you that you are in violation of something just to have you ratteling yourself rather than disturbing them with the prob of the loss of your precious domain...so it is nothing personal.
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Omg omg omg, I was having the same problem. Their support is by far the worst. They even went so far as to ban my account from registering new domains. I've been sending them countless tickets and it's been a month since I started sending them tickets. All they do is give me a standard reply for everything and usually it takes them like a week to reply to me.
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I have had my domains taken down for apparently no reason and have been put on the Freenom watch list. Horrible domain registrar.
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I don't have any problem with Freenom, and i use it 3 years ago!