The cost of doing online business is getting more expensive every day. Various fees are involved just to start up a website ranging from a few dollars to hundreds. Some of these fees are for web site design, hosting, email, software expense, and domain name registration. Although buying a domain name is not the most expensive part of starting a website, it is still a recurring yearly cost that is helpful to avoid if possible. Having your own domain name gives your business respectability so it is a great thing to have. Getting a free domain name and registration from your web host is a great way to avoid paying an initial fee and yearly maintenance. It cuts your expenses for running your business. There are some facts you should know about what is involved and what should be looked for in considering the offers of free domain names.

There are a few methods of obtaining a free domain name registration. Finding out what they are is not difficult. With the use of a few strategies a business or organization can by-pass the difficulties and extra fees charged for registering a domain name. There are many online and also local companies that offer domain name registration along with a hosting service for a website. The features of both are very similar.

Tips for obtaining a free domain name:

* While finding an online domain name registration and hosting company always do a thorough research in order to get the best deal available, and this must include free domain name registration. The large business organizations generally enjoy this kind of favour from most of the web hosting companies.

* The easiest way of obtaining a domain name is to use the web host’s services for hosting your website. Many web hosts offer free domain name registration if you sign up for one of their packages, and also include email and web design as well.

* Don’t neglect looking to your local area for web hosting companies. There are many advantages to using a local company. The ability to communicate issues and concerns face-to-face, or deal with problems in person is just some of those advantages. Many small local companies also offer free domain name registration.

* See if the particular web host gives domain names and yearly upkeep with a package plan. This allows you to secure your personal data and information on you or your business without the public being able to access it. People trying to take advantage of public websites happen quite a lot. If that occurs your webhost will contact you and let you know of a breech, or an attempted breech of your privacy.

* These days, there are some free TLD Domains. Find Free TLD Domain Name Service providers and then sign up for their various offers in order to gain points. Gaining more points ensures getting more number of Free TLD Domains.

There are many online domain name providers where you can find free domain names. These types of services offer sub domain names for free when you use their sites to build your website. There are some disadvantages to these programs and they are not top-level domain names. They include:

Freedomain.co.nr

This domain name provider has some unique features for its clients. They have redirection service for free to point your existing website to the name. It is more commonly known as domain forwarding. Other services included are URL masking, Path forwarding, and URL cloaking. Some special features they provide are Meta Tag, and Favicon support. The only thing they require for the service is a link back from your web site to their main site. That is a very small price to pay for free services like these.

Dot.tk:

This may be one of the leading free domain name providers. It a top level domain name provider and they also offer free .tk names. The biggest drawback to this service is it is only temporary free service. It lasts for 90 days if you have less than 25 page views during that time. It also has popup advertisements that are beyond the website owner’s control making this a less popular option.

Uni.cc

Another very popular provider of free domain names is uni.cc. They offer some really great incentives to use their service in the form of site builders, free domain names, redirection, TLD domains. A major drawback is that this site no longer offers web hosting services, or email hosting as well as no longer providing FTP services. This makes them very limited for the use of a domain name.

GeoCities

GeoCities is a very popular source of free websites. They also offer free domain names and registration when you convert to a for a fee premium hosting package. They have great bandwidth availability for even the lowest of packages. On their free sites which are not domain name specific there are pop up and banner ads but on their free domain name fee-websites there are no ads. Both the free and paid sites offered great software and tech support.

Google Page Creator

Google is another free sub domain provider if you use their new page creator to build a website. This is still in Beta but it allows for great flexibility and function in order to put up a free web space. There are some drawback such as limited site pages per account, and some occasional bugs due to the development process but it offers many useful tools for building your site. You can also obtain a number of Google emails for use.

Fadlan.com

This service, like Google and yahoo’s free sites offers sub domain names for free. Your name would appear before or after these types of names such as yourname.fadlan.com. Fadlan.com also offers free redirection and forwarding. These types of sub domain names are great for non-profit organizations, or personal web pages, and fan sites.

Afraid.org

The nice thing about afraid.org is the ability to choose from several sub domain names. After sign up and registration at Afraid.org you get plenty of services including an update your domain tool which allows for redirection to your web space if you have one. They have a restriction of only 50 domain names per account.

C-o.in

C-o.in offers free and effective domain name service. They also include free redirection and forwarding service as a part of their free services. A good feature is the availability in several different formats for ease of use by anyone.

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