In this post you will find several ways to get a free domain for your blog in a normal way, without stories, or traps, if you need a domain for your blog, I propose several options.
There are several ways to get a free domain for a blog, some companies give it away along with the first year of hosting, there are also free domain registrations for the first year if you pay for 5 years when buying. There are free platforms that offer the possibility of registering domains without charging anything, they are renewed year after year and you do not receive a payment request. Speaking clearly with a good Hosting company, the registration of a domain including VAT is around 14.95 per year in a .com in an .es extension, it costs cheaper, as you can see, one euro and a bit per month, so if you want having a serious project a free domain is not going to ruin you.
Free domains for how long or in exchange for
- There are hosting provider companies that give away the registration of a domain with the hosting. This option is very good, although you have to pay the hosting price in advance for the first year. In many cases, since you are not interested in hosting, it is not an interesting option.
They make a package in which they go together and you can register normal extensions (.com, .es,) is a good way to get you to contract hosting with that company and thus make you lazier when changing service provider, a way to attract customers who remain in fear of migration.
• Other companies offer you the first year of the domain at a very low price, or on sale. At the end of the year, they begin to charge the market price, I advise you to look at the fine print first because they may be subject to permanence or the second year is much more expensive than usual. Here comes the strange thing, normally that domain is associated with a very basic plan that does not include email accounts, it does not allow you to access advanced functions of the DNS and MX and they are usually very problematic when it comes to having to create email accounts, come on, it’s not worth it if the following year you’re going to have to pay for the entire domain.
Now comes what most of us are interested in: Getting a free domain.
Companies that manage free domain extensions are common, but I always ask myself: Why are there companies that offer free domains? they are crazy? In some cases, apart from the free domain, they also offer free hosting with the possibility of being able to switch to the payment option in the future, imagine that your project is going well and you need to increase the hosting capacity or improve the loading time , then they weigh that for every x people a few will become paid, having their own old servers does not require them to make a great effort to host free websites. It’s similar to the classic: “you can keep this little box in your storage room for me” they don’t mind and they let you put your website there, then maybe at the time you decide to rent the storage room in conditions or not. I establish the analogy of the storage room because it is not a “showcase” but a low-quality hosting, it is a hosting with a bad IP range, with neighbors that can launch spam, slow speed, less secure but after all it is a free hosting.
Frenum free domains with various extensions available
You just have to go to Freedom and type the domain you want for your project, be careful not to get excited because almost all of them are free but if there is already a website with that name ahem. This is the best-known platform, it offers you free domains renewable for free from year to year, paying you can renew up to 8 years.
Zymic hosting and free hosting
Within these free hosting and free domain packages I recommend Zymic (which offers free hosting (reliable) and a domain with some rare extensions but it is free.
What types of domains can I get for free?
The domains you can get for free are ccTLD country code domains or superior domains.
Free domain issues
A free domain is that it is extendable and the registration company may not want to renew it, imagine that they close or simply decide to start charging, this presents a problem because they are not usually in the name of the user but of the registration entity or owners of the platform. Which makes this a problem in the long run.
In many hosting platforms they do not accept domains with free extensions, for example the .to extension is banned in some free and paid hosting providers.
In reality, it is not a good option to choose a free domain for a blog since you invest a lot of effort in generating links that can be lost when you change the domain.
But is this free domain a trap or not?
You have a foreign extension is not the most favorable for your SEO, “to” is a Tokelau extension, a bit far but you can have your free domain like this but for localization purposes it is a mess there if you should place the reflag tag is for indicate that it is a Spanish blog or that of the corresponding country. This may be a bug in our SEO that is difficult to overcome.
If you see on the map that you don’t like Tokelau you can use: and register it in Gabon, it depends on how exotic we get up. XD
These two domain registries have been working for many years and without too many problems, but I still recommend that you scratch your pockets to get a proper domain.
A free domain has drawbacks:
- Therefore, you must take into account that you do not have a first level domain.
- A domain with an extension from another country will make it difficult for you to be geolocated by Google services.
- You will have to include the reflag attribute corresponding to your country to indicate the language in which you are writing.
- You depend on the domain registrar and its conditions(in this case I think they have been free for more than 10 years). but if they get fed up…
- If you later decide to change to .es, .com, the domain age cannot be transferred, so you would lose it and it is an important factor in SEO that it hurts to give up.
- They are not well-received domains on mail and hosting platforms.
Domains almost free the first year
A website in which the domains and hosting are very cheap is Strata, the .es and .com domains do not reach the euro during the first year, then they go to their normal price, but if you think your project can become something Seriously, choosing the domain well is a very good option. Depending on the country, because they have many offices, it is cheaper or less.
The offers in which they give you the domain with the hosting:
They are companies that are usually very competent, I recommend as an important SEO factor to take into account the quality of the hosting, you can already optimize your website to the maximum that if your hosting does not measure up, your website is slow. In any case, I personally prefer this option to achieve free domains. There are more options to have a domain without investing a penny but I have limited myself to choosing the ones that really work and are not complicated to carry out and are feasible for bloggers, another thing is that you want to become a registrar, reseller, etc. Every month new companies come out giving away domains and it’s tempting but you have to read the fine print because sometimes it links to abusive hosting services. Also other companies simply disappear in a few months without explanation. When I refer to abusive, it is not the price that is most important, but rather conditions or services that are well below what is offered in other providers and because we do not compare or think or pay attention to anyone, they seem enough to us, a blog does not it’s a website and a blog draws a lot of traffic from visits, downloads, requests don’t sacrifice the quality of your work for 15 euros a year that you save with free domains. In short, these domains are for projects that will not last or tests, it is not at all responsible to use a free domain for a serious project, imagine after 8 months changing the domain and going back to doing all the link building and link baiting work because of wanting to save €15 a year very sad I hope the article on how to get a free domain for a blog has served you.
