opendomain.org - Free domains?

[yoink78]

Apparently, opendomain.org is offering free domain names, but it sounds a little too good to be true to me. All the domains seem to be blacklisted. Anybody heard of this site? Scam?

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Our site search feature is having issues, but Google still works
http://www.google.com/search?source...004-42,GGLD:en&q=site:namepros.com+opendomain

-Allan :gl:

 

[wacky_lokpo]

You just borrow the domain. Ownership is not really changed

 

[yoink78]

But it's still suspicious. Some of the names a pretty valuable, and their all blacklisted. Hmm. Maybe it's for real though, I'm not sure. Any other thoughts on this?

 

[IAmAllanShore]

I thought my link above answered that: If it seems to good to be true, it probably is.
All you're guaranteed to do is bring a lot of traffic to a site/domain that isn't really yours, and could disappear at any time.
-Allan

 

[yoink78]

Good point. Maybe they put big time heavy ads on it. I never thought of that.

 

[wasistdas]

Looks very much as a crap

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Good point. Maybe they put big time heavy ads on it. I never thought of that.

I wouldn't call that the issue, more that they could take the domain back at any point.
So all your work and the domain dis-ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!-pears.
-Allan

 

[yoink78]

I've had that happen to me before, but from crappy hosts, not the domains. Here we go again with more scammers. I can't understand what they'd get out of it ,maybe they'd phish your info or something, but I can see it happening.

 

[domainprince]

I dont believe free domain offers nowadays. Sounds too good to be true.