how to create a free domain
Posted by Matheus-Matius@reddit | learnprogramming | View on Reddit | 5 comments
How do I create a free domain so I can make a website and create subdomains for blogs?
Please How to create a free domain?
johanngr@reddit
http://www.dot.tk/ used to be free years ago and looks like it still is
spellenspelen@reddit
You can't static domains aren’t free.
Oke there is one exception, sort of. But don't do it!
Using the Tor protocol, you can generate .onion addresses yourself, since they’re created cryptographically rather than registered. You could even generate a bunch until you get one you like, though that takes time and computing and most browsers don't support it. So don't do that.
EmperorLlamaLegs@reddit
Top Level Domains are assigned to different governments that basically own them, .uk is owned by the United Kingdom. They created .co as a second-level domain to act like the US's .com tld.
If you want a domain under .com, you need to pay the US government yearly to register it. If you want a .co.uk, you will have to pay the Brits.
If you want a free domain, you need to find someone willing to give you one that handles paying for it. Usually this comes in the form of a service that will give you a "subdomain" to the domain that their business uses. This was really common with blogs for a while, but I have no idea if people still do it.
This would look like yourdomain.theirdomain.topleveldomain, or yourdomain.theirsubdomain.theirdomain.secondleveldomain.topleveldomain.
There's not a hard limit that I'm aware of for how many domain levels an address can have. I'm sure there is one, but I've seen edu addresses that were pretty deep in subdomains, maybe 7 8 levels.
high_throughput@reddit
If you want a free top level domain name, you can edit your hosts file and manually input the hostname and IP addresses.
Anyone else wishing to access your site through that name has to do the same.
If you want to connect it to the global DNS so anyone can access it automatically, you have to pay the ~$13/year (or convince someone to pay it for you).
Environmental_Gap_65@reddit
A free domain? You can host sites on places like cloudflare for free, but if you want a custom domain you have to pay for it. Otherwise it will be assigned idstring-sitename.dev