Free .ml domains

[bradleyau]

Starting July 15, .ml domains (country-code for Mali) will be available to be registered for free.

.ml will be the second domain extension to be offered for free, the only other one is .tk.

 

[Bill36]

Source? Not saying I don't believe you I would just like to read more about it! Thanks for the information.

 

[-EM-]

http://www.freenom.com/en/index.html

The owner of dot.tk already told about his project to add more ccTLDs. for free registration about a year ago.

 

[lothos]

Source? Not saying I don't believe you I would just like to read more about it! Thanks for the information.

http://www.freedomregistry.com/dotml_pressrelease_04082013.pdf

 

[bradleyau]

The owner of dot.tk already told about his project to add more ccTLDs. for free registration about a year ago.

[at]-EM-: Never knew there were more! .cf and .ga don't appear to be free though, do you know if or when they will become free?

 

[-EM-]

[at]-EM-: Never knew there were more! .cf and .ga don't appear to be free though, do you know if or when they will become free?

As far as I know it should be an other ccTLD (rumors were about 4 new ccTLDs).
Yes they will become free, just click on the about link in the bottom of the page.

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I had the bad idea to register a few domains in those ccTLDs.
First impression:
Their system does not seem to work properly. Once I have the posibility to register a domain and a few seconds later it say invalid domain and if I retry later it is available again.
The prices are VERY expensive even if they say the cost will be about $10 per domain, they charge about 400 EUR for abc.cf or about 90 EUR for host.cf. Seriously? Like these are the only ccTLDs in the world....

 

[bradleyau]

I had the bad idea to register a few domains in those ccTLDs.
First impression:
Their system does not seem to work properly. Once I have the posibility to register a domain and a few seconds later it say invalid domain and if I retry later it is available again.
The prices are VERY expensive even if they say the cost will be about $10 per domain, they charge about 400 EUR for abc.cf or about 90 EUR for host.cf. Seriously? Like these are the only ccTLDs in the world....

I own a free .tk domain name (bradleyau.tk) but .tk has gotten a bad reputation for hosting spam and malicious content so I don't know if it was good choice. After I found out that .tk was free, I wanted to register bradley.tk but then they claim that it's a "special domain" and asked me to pay $298 USD.

Do you... or does anyone here... actually own or registered a .tk domain? I just want to see if people are still using it despite the bad rep they've gotten.

 

[Bill36]

Thanks for the links guys!

 

[chold]

it is not free. it took me 99 dollars to register whois.ml

 

[bradleyau]

it is not free. it took me 99 dollars to register whois.ml

It's not free yet. It will be free starting July 15.

 

[iowadawg]

I really don't think they will give domains away free.
And to wait until July?

Yet are charging now?

This entire thread is bogus and should be deleted.

 

[-EM-]

I really don't think they will give domains away free.

Ok, thank you for letting us know you opinion.
.cf, .ml, .ga and .tk are managed by freenom as I mentioned before.
.tk is already free.

And to wait until July?

freenom is following the standard procedure of launching a TLD, that means sunrise and landrush periods.
.ga is still in the sunrise period, while .ml and .cf are in landrush period and it is normal too expect high prices. Once this period is over they will be free of charge same as .tk probably.

.

Yet are charging now?

Explained above.

This entire thread is bogus and should be deleted.

Just because you don't like/believe it doesn't mean it will not be true.

 

[Nappy Bunch]

still doesn't seem to be free then

 

[NPer]

still doesn't seem to be free then

Give it a couple more seconds...

This extension will soon be associated with malicious/scam/spam sites.

 

[Bill36]

Yeah, still not free.

 

[evtimii]

The .ml domains are free now - I registered 2 yesterday.

However, the keyword domains and short domains aren't free.

For example, if you want to register piano.ml, it will be paid, but if you try to register my-piano-now.ml , it will be free :gn:

 

[Bill36]

The .ml domains are free now - I registered 2 yesterday.

However, the keyword domains and short domains aren't free.

For example, if you want to register piano.ml, it will be paid, but if you try to register my-piano-now.ml , it will be free :gn:

Does it have to have the dashes? Any domain I try and register is still $99 for me.

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Ah nvm I saw that there is another button at the bottom that says register for free. They can not be sold or transferred though.

 

[evtimii]

No, it just should not be short domain or one word.

For example, I just registered mynumber.ml (free).

 

[Bill36]

Got it now, I just registered VacationHere.ml

 

[-EM-]

The .ml domains are free now - I registered 2 yesterday.

However, the keyword domains and short domains aren't free.

For example, if you want to register piano.ml, it will be paid, but if you try to register my-piano-now.ml , it will be free :gn:

I confirm it is free now, although premium keywords are still for sale at higher price.

P.S. I am using your avatar pic, hope you don't mind