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A comment on Tell HN: Freenom (the operator of .tk, .ml, .ga, .cf, .gq TLDs) is falling apart. Parent comment

Re:Tell HN: Freenom (the operator of .tk, .ml, .ga, .cf, .gq... by MallocVoidstar on Saturday December 31, 2022 @09:12AM (#34196574)
I've never used Freenom because I've repeatedly seen warnings (for years) that if your 'free' domain starts getting noticeable traffic they will suddenly decide you need to pay them for it and shut down DNS resolution until you do.
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Re:Tell HN: Freenom (the operator of .tk, .ml, .ga, .cf, .gq... by dan15 on Sunday January 01, 2023 @04:24AM (#34204924)
Yeah, that's pretty common. If you get a large amount of traffic, they take the domain from you and try to sell it back to you as as "premium" domain at a hugely inflated price.

You don't have any rights to free domains. Freenom are the 'official' owner of the domain and can do whatever they want with it.

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