Free second-level domains?

**plastus** · April 5th, 2003, 16:27

Anyone know of any second level domains, other than uni.cc and vel.pl? My friend needs something that will support DNS since he hates re-directs. Thanks.

**EpidemiK** · April 5th, 2003, 16:29

www.dhs.org

**plastus** · April 6th, 2003, 14:50

Looks like it's paid. They require some kind of donation to keep your domain.

**jfb** · April 7th, 2003, 04:00

Hello,

It seems sitelutions.com (previously ontehweb.nu) offers such a service, but I have no clue on their reliability.

A really free solution is EU.ORG. But applications are checked manually and may take some time (one or two months).
A pleased be good and use it to really good projects (not for some teenager's collection of bad quality mp3's or out of date serial numbers ;-)

JFB

**sharkbyte** · April 14th, 2003, 22:25

theres also shorturl.com

**jfb** · April 15th, 2003, 01:36

Sharkbyte,

Redirection is not domain.
The question is which provider gives a free 3rd level domain (you.2ndlevel.toplevel).
A domain is more than an URL: you may set up a web site, a mail server and so on.

So shorturl.com is not about that (by the way their redirection service is among the best...)

jfb

**sharkbyte** · April 15th, 2003, 12:13

i know that, however, i was thinking that maybe the person that made this post didnt,so i posted from theyre point of view. another one to try id za.net .... i havnt tried them yet, but im pretty sure they allow dns and stuff like that.

**sharkbyte** · April 15th, 2003, 12:16

oops! im pretty sure thats a 2nd level.....anyways.... i gotta go check on my soon-to-be-apache server-on-a-486-with-6-megs-of-mem (or STBAOAFESWSMOM)