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They recently screwed up a transfer if a .to domain I own. They charged an extra $700 and then messed up the process. The domain was useless for 24 hours. Luckily it was only used for non-revenue services. I asked for a post Morten and to refund the $700 and after waiting weeks gave up on both. I figured it was just a fluke.
Their platform is bugging and marking my order as automated: "We were unable to verify you as a human, please try again later."
I sent a ticket and they replied two days later, saying that they "will not be able to effect this transfer". I asked the reason and didn't received yet another reply.
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> Why? Is there something inherently bad about free domains? Not the person you've asked but I've seen many legitimate websites using free eu.org[1] (sub)domains but I believe I've never seen a legit use of tk/ml/ga/gq TLDs. I may have seen the cf one used for some configuration tools though. [1] https://nic.eu.org/
Tokelau, Mali, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and the Central African Republic are all actual countries with legitimate users, although admittedly they're also quite small and poor.
So yes, they are actual counties but we can’t use that information to pressure that there’s must be at least one legitimate user (e.g. the government).
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> Why? Is there something inherently bad about free domains? Not the person you've asked but I've seen many legitimate websites using free eu.org[1] (sub)domains but I believe I've never seen a legit use of tk/ml/ga/gq TLDs. I may have seen the cf one used for some configuration tools though. [1] https://nic.eu.org/
Tokelau, Mali, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and the Central African Republic are all actual countries with legitimate users, although admittedly they're also quite small and poor.
They recently screwed up a transfer if a .to domain I own. They charged an extra $700 and then messed up the process. The domain was useless for 24 hours. Luckily it was only used for non-revenue services. I asked for a post Morten and to refund the $700 and after waiting weeks gave up on both. I figured it was just a fluke.
https://www.reddit.com/r/freenom/comments/hixljd/workarounds...
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Tokelau, Mali, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and the Central African Republic are all actual countries with legitimate users, although admittedly they're also quite small and poor.
Poor, yes, but mostly not that small. Mali is huge, 5 times bigger than the UK, and has a population of 21.5 million. Central African Republic is half that size, with 5 million people. Gabon is smaller, but still bigger than the UK, and has 2.3 million people. Equatorial Guinea is actually small, but still has 1.7 million people. Tokelau is tiny in both size and population, and isn't even an independent country.
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Why? Is there something inherently bad about free domains? I’m aware that they were used for scams and eventually some websites (like facebook) just blacklisted them but other TLD could be too.
> Why? Is there something inherently bad about free domains? Not the person you've asked but I've seen many legitimate websites using free eu.org[1] (sub)domains but I believe I've never seen a legit use of tk/ml/ga/gq TLDs. I may have seen the cf one used for some configuration tools though. [1] https://nic.eu.org/
Webmasters also have little control on records and other parameters that are standard at other registrars.
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Tokelau, Mali, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and the Central African Republic are all actual countries with legitimate users, although admittedly they're also quite small and poor.
Poor, yes, but mostly not that small. Mali is huge, 5 times bigger than the UK, and has a population of 21.5 million. Central African Republic is half that size, with 5 million people. Gabon is smaller, but still bigger than the UK, and has 2.3 million people. Equatorial Guinea is actually small, but still has 1.7 million people. Tokelau is tiny in both size and population, and isn't even an independent country.
I doubt GP meant 'quite small' land area. In terms of population then, the UK is roughly 35 times the size of Gabon.
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Why? Is there something inherently bad about free domains? I’m aware that they were used for scams and eventually some websites (like facebook) just blacklisted them but other TLD could be too.
Something bad about misusing country codes, but I guess that’s an argument long lost.
The ccTLDs belong to the sovereign entity whose code it is, in many cases they let some for-profit outfit exploit this resource and keep some fraction of the resulting income.
If the sovereign entity doesn't like how it's run, that's on them to fix it. It's unfortunate if people somehow end up building something important using a name that's ultimately controlled by some tin pot dictatorship, but it's not like you don't know up front.