The biggest issue with all the .tk talk is that people don't realise that you don't actually get the domain for free, but rather you agree to a leasing contract (sponsored domain contract might be another way to describe it). The truth about the FREEDOMAIN.TK leasing:
- You only lease the domain. You do not have any legal ownership rights to it, except to use it in accordance to the policies defined by the user agreement. Neither are you listed in the WHOIS data as the registrant.
- You must have traffic to your website. If you fail to have at least 25 visitors per every 3 months, the domain lease will expire.
- Before the domain redirects to your website, it shows a black page with an ad and opens a pop-up ad.
- You can actually aquire a normal .tk domain. There's several accredited resellers besides DotTK and their PAIDDOMAIN.TK, which is the name of their the regular .tk domains. Some however believe this isn't the case.