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Perhaps you already know that it is possible to obtain a domain name free. However, you always wondered how a country can afford to give their domain names for free? For a country that only assign their domain names, instead of charging for them? 1. Free Domain Names of Dot TK You can get a free top-level domain name of Dot TK (www.dot.tk). According to his site, "Dot TK is a joint venture of the Government of Tokelau, it& 39;s communication company Teletok and Taloha, Inc., a private company owned. The Government of Tokelau has been appointed Taloha, Inc. As the exclusive registration entity. " Of course, for free. Tk areas, the ownership remains with Dot TK. That means you can not sell it. As well, there are other restrictions and disadvantages of free. Tk areas, including: — You can only register a maximum of three domain names free; — You need 25 visitors within a period of ninety days; — You must have some existing content on the Web, so that his name dot tk may be addressed to him, and — Dot TK uses frames to display your site. This being the case, you may have problems with the navigation (or bookmarking find specific pages) and search engine friendliness. For companies serious use, you may want to pay the nominal cost of a domain name. 2. So they offer free domain names? Still, it is free. Why do they do this when they could make money from the sale of domain names? According to its website: "Why does give free Dot TK domain names? We believe that the Internet was supposed to be & 39;Free& 39;. Meaning without charges, payments or favors expected return. " 3. How can they afford to give free domain names? This logic leads us to our next question: How can they afford to give free domain names? Dot TK is money paid from domain names, including some special and brand names. To help support Dot TK, you can optionally have an ad appears on your site. Thus, they receive some advertising revenue from this. However, the big money would be the sponsorship by large corporations. 4. Other names free top-level domain Incidentally, this is not the only ccTLD (country code Top-Level Domain), which gives some domain names for free. As just one example, cg is the ccTLD for the Republic of Congo. Each of its citizens and legal residents are allowed a free. Cg domain name. 5. Free subdomain names Moreover, subdomain names are also available for free. For example, eu.org says in its website that its goal "is to provide free registration subdomain to users or nonprofit organizations who can not afford the outrageous fees demanded by some NICs, especially in Europe." As well, nr ccTLD is the name for the Republic of Nauru. You can have a name of free subdomain co.nr. Thus, your domain name could be something like yourcompany.co.nr. Why is it that countries give free domain names? They want their citizens and others to enjoy the benefits of using a domain name without cost to be a problem. It can also be a promotional method to get the word out about their ccTLD. How do they afford to give free domain names? Advertising revenue and the sale of paid areas are two forms of financing free domain names.
