Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown
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Re: Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown
#2Unrelated to the article but seeing .tk brings back many memories. As a kid without a bank account let's alone an international credit card (VISA/Mastercard), dot.tk is the only way to put a website online with your name. I created countless of websites with .tk for classmates, school and families.
Re: Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown
#3Unrelated to the article but seeing .tk brings back many memories. As a kid without a bank account let's alone an international credit card (VISA/Mastercard), dot.tk is the only way to put a website online with your name. I created countless of websites with .tk for classmates, school and families.
I used .co.nr alongside .tk for a while, before moving to .co.cc, and then finally managing a way to buy my domain.
Re: Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown
#4Thank god, .tk caused so many headaches for us, truly a cesspit of a tld. The rate of fraud and abuse on our platform was staggeringly high from it, it was close 99%.
Re: Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown
#5Unrelated to the article but seeing .tk brings back many memories. As a kid without a bank account let's alone an international credit card (VISA/Mastercard), dot.tk is the only way to put a website online with your name. I created countless of websites with .tk for classmates, school and families.
Same here. .tk was the only one back then that allowed you to have your own domain name without subdomains. My memory is that:
1. freeserver.com/~userna 2. username.freeserver.com 3. username.fs.com 4. username.tk Then we grew up a bit and started paying domains :')
Re: Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown
#6Thank god, .tk caused so many headaches for us, truly a cesspit of a tld. The rate of fraud and abuse on our platform was staggeringly high from it, it was close 99%.
You think that fraud is just going to go away because .tk is gone?
Re: Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown
#7Thank god, .tk caused so many headaches for us, truly a cesspit of a tld. The rate of fraud and abuse on our platform was staggeringly high from it, it was close 99%.
It would follow that Cloudflare is tacitly admitting they have been / are hosting a large number of domains used for fraud and abuse. That surprises me, given the time and effort they spend mitigating fraud and abuse. Anyone care to explain what I'm missing?
Re: Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown
#8Thank god, .tk caused so many headaches for us, truly a cesspit of a tld. The rate of fraud and abuse on our platform was staggeringly high from it, it was close 99%.
You think that fraud is just going to go away because .tk is gone?
probably not, but very little of value has been lost
Re: Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown
#9Oh, that is why I wasn't able to renew some domains I have used for 10+ years. I'm not even able to upgrade to paid domain.
I don't think it will help reducing malware/scams/phishing. But it will hurt students and young people that want to start in en development and aren't able to pay for a domain.
Re: Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown
#10Another prominent .tk domain is for the Tcl programming language (tcl.tk) and I just checked, that is one of the paid .tk domains that are still up.