Free stuff sites make up a very decent percentage of all sites on the internet. You can get anything from free screensavers to free software to free iPods to free vacations on the internet. Obviously other than a very few select products none of them are ‘truly’ free. They are not even a ’shareware kind’ of product. Most of these schemes will expect a certain action to be performed to claim the ‘free stuff’.

Normally, signing up to an offer from an advertiser, referring friends to a site or service or buying a related product all are examples of the ‘actions’ expected. For example, the free iPod offer that took over the internet by craze works on the premise that each person will refer 5 of their friends to the scheme as well as sign up to a few sponsor offers himself.

What is surprising is that out of all these offers, there are very few that are webmaster-centric. You hardly find offers for free domains, free webhosting or free traffic when you sign up for an offer. This is probably because the cost of these services or products are too low to warrant much interest. It can also be that webmasters prefer more direct forms of rewards like cash.

It is not that there are absolutely no free domain offers on the net. There are a few but their ‘action’ expected is either to buy hosting or to sign up and post at forums. The first scenario is a little scary because most web hosting companies will register the ‘free’ domain in their own name. So if want to change the web host, you lose the domain name and with it all the hard work you put in to develop the brand image. That leaves the posting at forums option. Well, if you asked me to post, say 50 messages and all of reasonable length (atleast 10 - 15 words), it will take me a month. This assumes that I also have something better to do! I cannot wait that long for a domain even if it is free.

From experience, it is seen that a webmaster will never refuse a free domain name. For that matter no one will will refuse a free thing if there is no catch involved. A webmaster should be willing to sign up for a free offer or two in exchange of a free domain. If such a scheme were available it should be quite sucessful. May be not as much as the free iPods schemes but atleast 50% as effective as them. If the free offer does not involve disclosure of credit card information, it will be the icing on the cake!

This is exactly what I have been working out. You sign up for an offer. If it is a valid sign up then I buy you a domain name. No credit card information required and no obligation too. That simple. The only condition is you must be from the US and must fill up the information required (name, email, address etc) honestly. As soon as I recieve confirmation of the signup (usually 2-3 days) you get your domain name. And, yes these are not pharmaceutical or gambling offers, you need to sign up to recieve more information from an online education university. Can it get better than that? Visit

Cheap domain registration

In common internet parlance, the term domain name has multiple related meanings. It may mean a hostname that identifies a computer or computers on the Internet, Registered domain names, which are obtained from domain name registrars or names used for other purposes in the Domain Name System (DNS), for example the special name which follows the @ sign in an email address, or the top-level domain names like .com, or the names used by the session initiation protocol (VOIP), or domain keys.

Therefore, the main purpose of a free domain name is to provide a recognizable name to mostly numerically addressed Internet resources. It allows any resource, and in this case a website, to be moved to a different physical location in the network globally. The DNS is a hierarchical naming system for computers, services, or any resource participating in the Internet. Its purpose is to associates various information with domain names assigned to such participants and translate them for the purpose of locating and addressing these devices world-wide. This system thus makes it possible to assign domain names to groups of Internet users in a meaningful way, independent of each user’s physical location. It is an essential component of the functionality of the Internet. It stores other types of information, such as the list of mail servers that accept email for a given Internet domain.

It is the DNS distributes the responsibility of assigning domain names and mapping those names to Internet Protocol addresses by designating authoritative name servers for each domain. It is here that the idea of free domain comes in. Normally, authoritative name servers are assigned to be responsible for their particular domains, and in turn can assign other authoritative name servers for their sub-domains, essentially, they usually charge for this service. However, there are projects developed to provide Free Domain Names or Free Sub-domain domain name to those who wish to get a customized and free domain name, free sub-domain or free short Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that looks like a real paid domain name. a URL is a type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that specifies where an identified resource is available and the mechanism for retrieving it. In popular language, a URL is also referred to as a Web address.

A person then uses this free domain name to access his website, no matter where it is hosted. This is usually a combination of the host’s local name with its parent domain’s name. For example, “free.tools.domain.com” would consists of a  free local hostname “free”, the local hostname “tools”, which now actually hosts the person with the free domain name and the domain name “domain.com”. This is then translated into an IP address through the local hosts file, or the Domain Name System (DNS) resolver. It is possible for a person to have several free domain names, unless there is some regulation from parent host that is providing the free hosting. It is also possible for the single host computer to have several hostnames; but generally the operating system of the host prefers to have one hostname that the host uses for itself.

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