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KNK

February 17th, 2001, 04:45

NameDemo requires you to have a creditcard! haha, that's B.Crap .... I suppose there are no longer free domains .. even the ones with ads ... namedemo is free but the kids can't register with it .. or even people without a credit card.

Chris

February 17th, 2001, 09:25

Yeah, I wonder why namezero stopped.

LeX

February 17th, 2001, 11:07

...and just a while ago, they sent me their first newsletter (ugh) telling me about how great and improved their services are and everything, and it keeps going on about what you guys here are saying they don't offer. Hmm......... I dunno.

itsme

February 17th, 2001, 11:26

Why don't u try http://www.powerpipe.com. They charge only 8.88 for a domain name. And that's the cheapest that i've seen so far.

Technics

February 17th, 2001, 11:41

They were loosing too much money i guess from the banner cheats. Cheat a service and it either gives up and goes onto something new or starts doing paid services only.

The reason why they prolly started as free was to establish themselves in the domain market. Now they have a name for themselves they have gone and put a fee on the service.

Coolin

February 17th, 2001, 12:51

Originally posted by KNK
NameDemo requires you to have a creditcard! haha, that's B.Crap .... I suppose there are no longer free domains .. even the ones with ads ... namedemo is free but the kids can't register with it .. or even people without a credit card. I thought only DomainZero did that, unless NameDemo changed its policies.

LeX

February 17th, 2001, 12:53

Now you need a credit card to register at Namedemo

Coolin

February 17th, 2001, 12:57

I think the only one left is emeisp... Do they need a credit card?

LeX

February 17th, 2001, 12:58

I don't think so... but neither did I ever get a domain from them - not like I would want to now anyways... I've learned my lesson. >_<

Coolin

February 17th, 2001, 13:16

Ya, there's no sure way of getting a free domain.

LeX

February 17th, 2001, 13:21

I just paid a visit to Namezero's page... it seems like they've really stopped the free domain thing. Just a few days ago (or it could've been weeks already, time really flies by) they still have the fee domain options on their page. I guess they've finally figured that what they were doing was wrong (in a way).

Too bad. I guess you can take a shot at emeisp, but I've never gotten ---- from them at all. :(

Coolin

February 17th, 2001, 13:23

Originally posted by LeX
Too bad. I guess you can take a shot at emeisp, but I've never gotten ---- from them at all. :( That's what happened to NameZero right before they died. When they first started, I got my email from them in less than 5 mins.

Mandrake

February 17th, 2001, 17:48

I checked NameZero's page and all I saw was the "Business Plus" and "Personal Plus" services.

Coolin

February 17th, 2001, 21:31

That's what we all got. Therefore, we are guessing that the free service is now gone without a notification or a trace.

LeX

February 17th, 2001, 23:32

Right... hence my previous post.

They prolly lost too much moola to continue. I guess their adframe didn't do much help.

Coolin

February 17th, 2001, 23:59

There were probably way too many abusers hacking the banners. And if people didn't hack them, they probably used the domain for secondary purposes that made the domain not get many hits. This way, Namezero couldn't get enough cash because the domains that weren't hacked got next to no visitors. How can an ad-frame that pays 10 cents a click with about 3 visitors are month that don't click on them generate enough revenue for a $35 domain?

Canuckkev

February 18th, 2001, 00:01

Yeah. I abandonned the domain I registered with namedemo.com shorlty after. Meh, not my money...

DemonKnight

February 19th, 2001, 02:46

I got domainzero when they were still new and giving out free names, all tree domains I registerd still work and I havent gotten any news letters or any thing from them for a while, and I havent paid a thing. Glad I got my stuff when I did.

KNK

February 19th, 2001, 04:15

Originally posted by DemonKnight
I got domainzero when they were still new and giving out free names, all tree domains I registerd still work and I havent gotten any news letters or any thing from them for a while, and I havent paid a thing. Glad I got my stuff when I did.

You wait till your year is up ... then we see who is laughing.

Coolin

February 19th, 2001, 11:13

At least DomainZero doesn't keep your domain for life and not let you have it until you pay $50. That's just lame! I want my domain back so badly, but NameZero is keeping the thing.

KNK

February 19th, 2001, 15:30

I think domainzero is going to charge you 15 dollors if you want to re-register it . Since their owned by E-Nom ... I would expect the price to be that since that's what e-nom charges for 1 year registration.

Coolin

February 19th, 2001, 20:10

Great news! I have found the URL for NameZero's signup form!

http://www.namezero.com/signup/register.jsp?productid=2

There it is! Unfortunately, I seem to get an error when I try to sign up, anyone wanting a free domain could try this and see what happens.

Nick

February 20th, 2001, 17:49

:scatches head:

Isn't this the free webspace forum :confused:

Coolin

February 20th, 2001, 21:30

Originally posted by Nick
Isn't this the free webspace forum :confused: Actually, it is. But since the thread has been here so long, it either somehow accidentally flew by the moderators or is allowed here. I'm confused to, so here's the smilie again: :confused: ;)

LeX

February 21st, 2001, 07:07

Originally posted by Nick
:scatches head:

Isn't this the free webspace forum :confused: [/B]
I just noticed that... *lol*

I'll add my smilie too.... :confused::confused:

Namezero sucks.

Coolin

February 21st, 2001, 23:52

I think everyone (including me) thinks that all the people visit this forum only. Therefore, if they expected the question to be answered quickly, they post it here. It's sorta true though, since if this thread was in the Free Services or Domain Registration forum, it would have only got about 12 replies by now.

ace0

February 22nd, 2001, 19:58

I heard that you don't need to put in your credit card #, but don't you also get it for free for only 1 year?

Coolin

February 22nd, 2001, 21:34

I believe that was a long time ago when they first started. They probably changed the service by now (along with requiring a credit card.) It may still be one year though, you never know until you read the Terms Of Service (which is usually longer than Tale of Two Cities.)

ace0

February 22nd, 2001, 21:51

I did it here so it would get more views, because this is the most popular one.

ace0

February 22nd, 2001, 21:53

I heard that you can just skip the Credit Card #.

LeX

February 23rd, 2001, 07:13

You've heard, but do you know??

KNK

February 23rd, 2001, 11:58

Originally posted by LeX
You've heard, but do you know??

hehe:p

Coolin

February 23rd, 2001, 21:34

Perhaps someone could try it. I'm not, since I got the URL for the NameZero signup page already :p

Ashed

February 24th, 2001, 10:37

So, what's the deal with Namezero? They said they would discontinue my account on the 23rd of Feb and now that the date has passed, it is still active. Are they for real?

Coolin

February 24th, 2001, 13:44

Hmm... They said that to me too. I think they were trying to get more subscribers to their pay service since they said that I could no longer use their free service. Oh wait, I just checked my email and found this:

This special offer will expire on February 28, 2001 - so, in order to take advantage of this, you must act now! As part of this special offer, we will extend the registration period of your domain to one-year from your upgrade date at no additional cost.
Well, that solves our problem ;)

ace0

February 24th, 2001, 15:15

I heard in a spaceports forum that you don't need a credit card # for NameDemo.

ace0

February 24th, 2001, 19:36

Anyone know any other good free domain givers? (If you are against them, just don't say anything) Thanks.

Coolin

February 24th, 2001, 19:42

The only companies that offer free domain names are NameZero, DomainZero, NameDemo, and EmeIsp. There are no others.

Canuckkev

February 24th, 2001, 20:20

Originally posted by Coolin
The only companies that offer free domain names are NameZero, DomainZero, NameDemo, and EmeIsp. There are no others.

How can you be entirely sure about that. There could be one very tiny one that gets very few visits, but offers free domain names.

LeX

February 24th, 2001, 21:51

I doubt that. If any service is offering "free domains", then I'm positive the word will spread real quickly.

ace0

February 25th, 2001, 17:13

Maybe someone will come out with a good way to give them out free soon. I know if I could start one I would, but I am too young.

Zitech_Industries

February 25th, 2001, 17:57

So what's the url for the namezero signup?

ace0

February 25th, 2001, 18:09

I don't think it works anymore-even if you know it.

Coolin

February 25th, 2001, 19:47

Originally posted by Coolin
Great news! I have found the URL for NameZero's signup form!

http://www.namezero.com/signup/register.jsp?productid=2

There it is! Unfortunately, I seem to get an error when I try to sign up, anyone wanting a free domain could try this and see what happens.
Here you go Zitech! See if you can try to get it working...

LeX

February 26th, 2001, 08:45

Originally posted by ace0
Maybe someone will come out with a good way to give them out free soon. I know if I could start one I would, but I am too young.
Bad business, IMO. You don't really gain much from giving out free domains, even if you do it the Namezero way. See how they've stopped their services too? And look at how all the other so-called free domain services have "died out" too...

In a nutshell, I don't think it's worth the trouble. But if you really start giving out free domains, there will be lots of happy people out there. One thing you can't prevent though... abusers. A lot of companies shut down because of them.

ace0

February 27th, 2001, 21:23

How can they just quit like that without telling anybody? Now everyone has to pay to get the domains back,right? That is like a total lie!

Coolin

February 27th, 2001, 22:26

Originally posted by ace0
How can they just quit like that without telling anybody? Now everyone has to pay to get the domains back,right? That is like a total lie! That's business for you. People who want to keep their domain have to pay to keep it. My take? I say heck, I'm just gonna wait until they drop it and I will register it myself with a $10 domain registrar.

LeX

February 27th, 2001, 22:51

Originally posted by Coolin
I say heck, I'm just gonna wait until they drop it and I will register it myself with a $10 domain registrar. [/B]
That's what I'm waiting to do also, but... Namezero might just get greedy and keep your domain. That's the thing that scares me most. I mean, what if they just decided to sell your domain? There may be little chance that they'll just drop it and stop paying the fee and let other people register it. :(

Scorpz

February 28th, 2001, 07:06

I am currently waiting for a namedemo site to drop out within less than a year now. I am wondering though. Will the site be dropped on it's marked expiration date, or am I preparing for a much longer wait after the expiration and doomed for eternity? If anybody has had their namedemo site expire at all please tell me how they work things out. Do they keep it for themselves after expiration or does the site actually get "dropped". This information will save me lots of worries 'cause I don't know too much on how these free domain registrations crap works. They should be avoided at all cost I think. Unless you plan to have just a stupid little crap site. That ain't the case for me though.

RedHat

February 28th, 2001, 16:48

Originally posted by GRiN
So, what's the deal with Namezero? They said they would discontinue my account on the 23rd of Feb and now that the date has passed, it is still active. Are they for real?

I received the same mail (because I hided the ad-frame :o)

On 24/02/2001 I received a new mail, that said that I could steal upgrade my domanname until 28/02. Otherwise my domain would been deleted.
I did'nt change anything, and yesterday I received a new mail with a new dealine: 7 march.
I guess they can't delete your domainname because they registered it for a year, in a few day we will know I'll what they'll do ...

keep you in touch

Coolin

February 28th, 2001, 20:46

Everyone who wants their domain back just hide their banner and email them with the following message.

----

HAHA! You stupid people don't know the power of my super elite banner hiacking skills! Look at this, you guys suck! Come on, I dare you. Delete me, I bet you can't! I'm just way to good for your stupid company!

----

Then sit back and watch the action. ;)

LeX

March 1st, 2001, 07:14

What good does that do?

You're trying to trick them into "deleting" your domain(s), so that you can register them yourself somewhere else, or what?

Coolin

March 1st, 2001, 22:21

Originally posted by LeX
You're trying to trick them into "deleting" your domain(s), so that you can register them yourself somewhere else, or what? Yes.

LeX

March 2nd, 2001, 07:03

I thought about doing that once, but what if Namezero just decided to keep your domain and not release it? Then you would have lost your domain... forever! (okay, maybe it ain't that serious, but...)

ace0

March 2nd, 2001, 12:59

Why would they wan't to keep them if it costs them money to update them?

LeX

March 2nd, 2001, 13:21

So that they can sell them (maybe auction) later for bigger bucks. Like, if they got a hold of my.com (just suppose)... think about how much they could offer the domain for! Now, for the bigger picture... if thousands of domains are "stolen" by NZ, and every one of them are with good looking and sounding names... think about how much money they'll profit! Just IMAGINE!!!

Coolin

March 2nd, 2001, 14:16

Yeah, they're doing that already. I was thinking of starting up a StarCraft site called SCRealm. Guess who took all the domains? (Inlcuding .com/.net/.org) What's even worse is that the "Registrant" is not a normal name like most NameZero domains. But rather, NameZero is the registrant!

ace0

March 2nd, 2001, 19:07

Hmm...I am sure glad they didn't register mine-I was waiting for it to be registered, but I guess they stopped right before they did.

ace0

March 3rd, 2001, 20:06

WHAT? CHECK IT OUT! NAMEZERO IS BACK-THEY HAVE FREE DOMAINS AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Coolin

March 4th, 2001, 01:07

Hmm... So they are. Thanks for informing us about this ace0! :)

ace0

March 4th, 2001, 13:52

That is wierd-don't you think? I wonder if everyone is getting their domain back.

cowax

March 4th, 2001, 14:03

Namezero comes back, Namedemo stops. ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY!!!

ace0

March 4th, 2001, 14:10

didn't namedemo only give you 1 year, though? Then you had to upgrade?

Coolin

March 4th, 2001, 23:51

I think Namedemo changed their TOS so the domain is regged NameZero style, forever...

ace0

March 5th, 2001, 20:12

Hey Coolin-almost to 1000 posts!

Coolin

March 5th, 2001, 23:42

Originally posted by ace0
Hey Coolin-almost to 1000 posts! Erm... What does this have to do with NameZero anyways?

LeX

March 7th, 2001, 07:00

Absolutely nothing.

ace0

March 9th, 2001, 16:22

so, what. Hey- anyone know how long eMEisp ACTUALLY takes to approve domains? Mine has been a week now.

clearjade

March 10th, 2001, 07:36

Um...actually all domains registered at NameZero are registered by them. I've whoised a couple namezero domains, and they were all owned by them. That means they are always the registrant...I think.

cowax

March 10th, 2001, 08:31

Originally posted by LeX
So that they can sell them (maybe auction) later for bigger bucks. Like, if they got a hold of my.com (just suppose)... think about how much they could offer the domain for! Now, for the bigger picture... if thousands of domains are "stolen" by NZ, and every one of them are with good looking and sounding names... think about how much money they'll profit! Just IMAGINE!!!

I could.... registering a domain for 30$ today and then selling them for an average of, lets just say 75$, Namezero would be in the money pool. Few years down the road, there wont be any more half-decent .coms, .nets, or even .orgs. They could sell for big buck$ :D Good plan.

Lynks

March 10th, 2001, 08:33

Actually if you upgrade to plus like I did they say within 6 - 8 weeks it will say that your the registrant. Im going to be transferring outta there soon...

Just wait a little longer

Better payong 24.95 for another year and you get the transfer payed instead of just the transfer for $50!

Lynks

Lynks

March 10th, 2001, 08:35

Also why is this post in the free webspace forum? Namezero provides domains...

Im sure Chicken or Peo could move this to domain registration....

Lynks

ace0

March 10th, 2001, 17:33

sorry-I posted this when I was new-didn't know what I was doing.

Lynks

March 10th, 2001, 19:14

That's no problem I figure people post in the Freewebspace.net forum because they have a greater audience in their rather than posting somewhere else...

Anyways
Lynks

ace0

March 10th, 2001, 19:24

yeah.

Super8

March 10th, 2001, 23:47

Originally posted by Lynks
Actually if you upgrade to plus like I did they say within 6 - 8 weeks it will say that your the registrant. Im going to be transferring outta there soon...

Just wait a little longer

Better payong 24.95 for another year and you get the transfer payed instead of just the transfer for $50!

Lynks
Are you shown as the registrant yet? I paid my $19.99 to upgrade to Netzero Plus in early January. I can hide my Nav-bar now, but got an email last week saying: "...We have just removed a technical roadblock related to a third-party provider. The remaining steps have been assigned our highest internal priority. As soon as the process has been completely tested, we will begin processing the list of people who have upgraded to our Plus service..."

Dabian

March 11th, 2001, 08:23

I think i've read sometime ago when I've checked them it said THAtTHE DOMAINS USED BY NAMEZERO don't belong to the webmaster that use them! :(

Now I wonder? Since Namezero ain't actually a real registar, why can't we buy they domains registred by them? ;)

Best REgrads
Dabian

ace0

March 11th, 2001, 12:20

Maybe you should EMAIL them to ask. You could find out in a couple of years then!

ace0

March 16th, 2001, 21:16

What do you expect when you get it for free?

ace0

March 16th, 2001, 23:22

Since I already have this thread in this forum, does anyone know how you give away subdomains?

Chicken

March 16th, 2001, 23:37

How you give them away? Well, theyare not domains, so they don't have to be registered. Simple DNS entries usually will do it, though depends on how it is set up on the server (where the files will be/are).

ace0

March 16th, 2001, 23:38

how would I find out?

Chicken

March 17th, 2001, 00:16

Well, there's not one way to do this. Typically place that give out large numbers of subdomains (something like F2S), use a script that includes a sign up form, and sets up the structure on the server, etc.

I don't really know what you are trying to do exactly.

For smaller amounts of subdomains, you can use a service like mydomain.com which will allow you to set up subdomains, and forward them to various places. I believe you can forward subs to paths even, but I'm not certain.

Methods include having a wild card on the domain and setting it up so that anything.domain.com gets forwarded to the server (where you can set up subdomains there), or to a single site, which has a script that redirects based on the exact name (bill.domain.com goes here, bob.domain.com goes there).

Etc..............

ace0

March 17th, 2001, 14:43

eMEisp says you can give subdomains away-like ww2.blah.com (or maybe it was www2.blah.com), or something.

Chicken

March 18th, 2001, 03:04

I'm missing the question part of that post. What is it you are asking?

ace0

March 18th, 2001, 12:55

Just comments on them-I guess.

ace0

March 18th, 2001, 12:57

sorry-Ignore the last post...I don't know what I am trying to say-never mind I guess.

ace0

March 22nd, 2001, 19:21

Look at this!
Dear ,

Thank you for applying for Namezero's Free Service. We have given your application individual attention and have made every effort to approve it.

After careful review, we are unable to approve your request for our Free Service at this time. Common reasons for not approving applications include:

Incomplete or inaccurate information (e.g.: name or contact information)
Availability of domain
Availability of the Free Service in your market
Duplicate applications
If you feel that you were rejected due to incomplete information, we invite you to submit a new application. We also offer our Plus Service, which includes immediate processing and registration at a very competitive price. Through March 31, 2001 the Plus Service is available for only $19.95. To sign up visit: http://www.namezero.com.

Sincerely,

The Namezero Team

© 2001 Namezero.com Inc. All Rights Reserved

I didn't do anything wrong...

ace0

March 29th, 2001, 18:24

Namezero is fast!!! They registered my domain in about 1-2 weeks (forgot when I registered), instead of 6-8! I have it already!!!

LeX

March 29th, 2001, 20:39

Good for Namezero, bad for you.

Twiztid

March 29th, 2001, 20:59

I got kicked off of Namezero because I took away their banner, is there anyway I can get another one? (Like I'm not trying to be illegal or anything.)

LeX

March 29th, 2001, 21:03

You violated their TOS. Sorry, buddy. You're gone.

ace0

March 29th, 2001, 21:19

why do you DO that??? They have to make $$ somehow!!!!!!! It would be like going to work and not getting paid!!!!!!

ace0

March 29th, 2001, 21:29

I wonder-if you lied to them with your registration-or do they get your information from you being there...like a caller id type thing...

ace0

March 29th, 2001, 21:30

You could try eMEisp...but you need more visitors/day...it might be hard to do...you could just register one for only like $8/year-probably the best idea...

LeX

March 29th, 2001, 23:09

Originally posted by ace0
you could just register one for only like $8/year-probably the best idea... [/B]
So why didn't you? ;)

ace0

March 30th, 2001, 11:54

I don't know-just wanted to try a free one.

ace0

April 6th, 2001, 19:47

Does anyone know about having to check email through Namezero? I'm confused...

Super8

April 6th, 2001, 21:27

You can check your email thru NameZero and/or forward it to another account (hotmail etc..)

ace0

April 7th, 2001, 09:15

do you have to check your email through them or something? I saw something about it being required...

LeX

April 7th, 2001, 09:33

Like Super8 said, you can either check it thru Namezero or have all your emails fowarded to another account.

ace0

April 11th, 2001, 20:44

oh-but you are required to do something with it-right? You can't just leave it?

LeX

April 13th, 2001, 02:31

They sent me an email about how they were gonna terminate the email service unless I renew, reply or apply (forgot)... I ignored it.

ace0

April 13th, 2001, 12:40

ok, thanks

ace0

April 13th, 2001, 21:57

wow, 3000+ views...

ace0

April 16th, 2001, 10:39

they sell the domains if you don't reregister them after one year, right?

ace0

April 16th, 2001, 17:32

I also need some help with another problem...look under the free domain thread...

LeX

April 17th, 2001, 14:29

Originally posted by ace0
they sell the domains if you don't reregister them after one year, right?
Don't think so. From what I've gathered, they'll re-register your domain for you for free if they think your site qualifies. If not, they'll prolly make you pay the "special limited price of $24.95, a 30% saving!" or your domain's gone.

ace0

April 17th, 2001, 18:48

well, I meant if you don't get enough visitors. What do you mean gone? Like, sell it, right?

LeX

April 19th, 2001, 02:27

One thing I know for sure is that you won't get the domain fowarded to your site anymore and you won't have access to the control panel, etc.

My guess is they will try to auction the domain if it's good enough.

ace0

April 19th, 2001, 19:11

If I stop after a year, do they still keep it?

akersche

April 19th, 2001, 20:08

guess they would keep the domain... so they are sure you got to buy it from them, if you ever want to get it back...
also i think that they sometimes even register com, net and org, if you just register one of that!
So they earn something!

Super8

April 19th, 2001, 20:24

Yes, they registered the .org and .net versions of my .com.
I think that thru NameZero Plus you only get the .com back unless you pay more. I'll find out later this week when it goes thru the registrar (whoever it is).