It's not worth it.
Fior *free* you get your domain parked on their 2 nameservers, the twop
thet were hammered of the face of the internet, and it's $25 to add
one (or more) of your own. Other registrars cost less that $20.
Where is the savings here?
At 09:02 AM 3/24/00 -0800, Ellen Rony wrote:
>In the world of PR, giveaways are a well established tradition. Throughout
>the past 100 years, events have been held to exploit a situation or expand
>public consciousness. From a page in PR history, John D. Rockefeller,
>although a generous philanthropist, had earned a reputation a scrooge
>because of his strike-breaking activities at the beginning of the 20th
>century. In one publicity stunt that is now a textbook classic,
>Rockefeller was persuaded to hand out shiny silver dimes to everyone he met
>in the streets to dramatize his generosity.
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>The registerfreedomaindomain offer was a good one in concept, but if fell
>flat in implementation. People are more likely to remember yesterday's
>error messages than the name of the underlying business providing wholesale
>domain registrations. Indeed, seeing the cgi-script fetch instructions
>from Tucows gave me pause. Who was really in charge of this domain name
>offer?
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>It proved that most of us want to get something for free, but time is
>money, too, and after 25 minutes of reloading the IP address and receiving
>error messages of one sort or another, I decided it was time to move on to
>something more productive like sweeping dog hair out of the entryway.
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>Name Engine now has an opportunity to resurrect its image. It could make
>good its offer to those who send in five cached files as proof of repeated
>but aborted attempts to get through during the alloted free period.
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>I dump my cache files daily so my evidence of participation yesterday is
>gone, but at least my entryway is clean.
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>>I got through after about 30 minutes of trying. I finally got all the steps
>>to get a domain registered. It said the registration was successful. I
>>then tried to register anther one and it said only one per person.
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>>I then checked the NSI site and it said it was available. I then checked
>>another registrar and it said it was available. Since RegisterFree didn't
>>let me enter nameservers I expected there would be a fee to reconfigure. So
>>I registered the domain at another registrar first.
>>
>>Russ Smith
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