.Free domain names are free? What is catch?

[Stoic Joker]

Not sure what this is all about - just heard about it today - but they appear to be preregistering .free domain names. For free. I'm assuming there must be a catch...but none is obvious at this point (to me). I joined...perhaps foolishly...and no apparent evil manifested immediately.

Anybody heard anything about this??

[40hz]

They being who?

[rgdot]

http://www.dotfree.com/ I assume?

Free stuff online without ads is not rare...not sure what I can say about this one

[Stoic Joker]

Correct, sorry its been a weird day.

[KynloStephen66515]

It doesn't seem to guarantee you the domain.  Go back and try "Pre-Register" the same domains while logged out ^_^ (If your using dotfree.com btw)

[Deozaan]

Great way to harvest information for spam.

Password can only be 12 characters max. . .

General availability: November 2013. That's almost 2 years from now.

[Stoic Joker]

Great way to harvest information for spam.

-Deozaan (January 20, 2012, 08:38 PM)

Yes, but the promised not to... (hehe)

Password can only be 12 characters max. . .

-Deozaan (January 20, 2012, 08:38 PM)

With very limited special characters allowed ... Yeish! (agreed)

General availability: November 2013. That's almost 2 years from now.

-Deozaan (January 20, 2012, 08:38 PM)

Meh, it'll probably take me that long to figure out what to do with the domains. 


I guess I'll be Guinea Pigging this one ... and will let you know if/when my mail server explodes. 

[KynloStephen66515]

I guess I'll be Guinea Pigging this one ... and will let you know if/when my mail server explodes.

I used an alias e-mail to signup...If they decide to spam me, its a simple case of delete and move on

[rgdot]

pr0n.free  

[Deozaan]

pr0n.free  

-rgdot (January 20, 2012, 09:36 PM)

That means the lack of pr0n. Surely you wanted pr0n4.free ?

[Stoic Joker]

I guess I'll be Guinea Pigging this one ... and will let you know if/when my mail server explodes.

I used an alias e-mail to signup...If they decide to spam me, its a simple case of delete and move on

-Stephen66515 (January 20, 2012, 09:26 PM)

That too is an idea. But I've actually started to enjoy the spam a bit now that it helps me plan my day. Oh look a new and clever infected attachment scam ...Don't try to start anything new... It's gonna be a busy day for tech support.

[rgdot]

pr0n.free 

-rgdot (January 20, 2012, 09:36 PM)

That means the lack of pr0n. Surely you wanted pr0n4.free ?

-Deozaan (January 20, 2012, 09:40 PM)

oops good point

[Stoic Joker]

pr0n.free  

-rgdot (January 20, 2012, 09:36 PM)

Hay! That's a good one ... But it's taken now...

[Stoic Joker]

pr0n.free 

-rgdot (January 20, 2012, 09:36 PM)

That means the lack of pr0n. Surely you wanted pr0n4.free ?

-Deozaan (January 20, 2012, 09:40 PM)

oops good point

-rgdot (January 20, 2012, 09:44 PM)

Damn...