Ask HN: Prettiest Free Domain

[mfbx9da4]

I realized today that I've lost my personal domain name. It wasn't set to auto-renew and the warning emails slipped through my inbox.

Sad as this was, it's kind of a relief. I hate having to maintain my own domain and it wasn't much more than a calling card. I would still like to host some stuff but not own / pay for a domain. What free services have nice domains that I can use to host my own stuff.

* Cloudflare Pages: pages.dev * Firebase: web.app

[pestatije]

.tk, .ml, .ga, .cf, .gq

https://www.freenom.com/en/freeandpaiddomains.html

you still have to renew though

[beauHD]

Worth reading this HN thread posted just recently:

> Freenom (the operator of .tk, .ml, .ga, .cf, .gq TLDs) is falling apart

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34194555

I wouldn't rely on them.

[WorldPeas]

if you don't want to pay, there are services like freenom, but they'll take your page over once you get over a certain number of visitors. I'd recommend just using a static github pages instance pointed to whatever server you have running a backend if you have one. GH pages has(to me) been very reliable and has never once broken

[beauHD]

> there are services like freenom

Worth reading this HN thread posted just recently:

> Freenom (the operator of .tk, .ml, .ga, .cf, .gq TLDs) is falling apart

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34194555

I wouldn't rely on them.

[escaper]

Just buy a domain and register it for like 10 years you cheapskate...

[beauHD]

Yeah what's stopping people doing this? Do they hate 'advance fees' and just want to pay yearly because they consider themselves financially savvy, or what is the issue?