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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

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Post by DaSHacka »

syuil wrote: post #14
thangngoc89 wrote: post #2

Unrelated 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.

Oh man, this brings back memories from high school! .tk was a blessing for us.

Same here! I remember registering a .tk domain for a school project I was working on at the time, my friends were all so impressed when I showed them it was available as a website they could visit in their browser

Re: Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown

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Post by DaSHacka »

yau8edq12i wrote: post #85
overstay8930 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do orgs feel the need to use these whacky TLDs I’m still of the fence with rust using .rs in important places which is fundamentally in control of the Serbian government. You’re going to have to trust the Serbian government with signing .rs DNSSSEC at minimum and I don’t.

Who do you trust?

.moe, as it's clearly the classiest and most professional TLD out there

Re: Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown

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Post by refulgentis »

creatonez wrote: post #206
refulgentis wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nobody cut off "legitimate free domain registrations" forever. Airquotes aren't sarcastic, just, idk exactly what that combination of words means so I want to leave myself an out. You are free to hand out domains for free to strangers, if you so desire. Nobody stopped anyone from anything.

> You are free to hand out domains for free to strangers, if you so desire. > Nobody stopped anyone from anything. This is impossible, as we have just seen with the ICANN termination of Freenom. Turns out, the legal threats will kill it, even if other TLDs also have plenty of cybersquatting going on. There's realistically no way to repeat Freenom's success in giving out free domains without greatly heightened legal e…

The article claims Freenom shut down of its own free will. Are you reporting otherwise?

Re: Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown

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Post by dpacmittal »

thangngoc89 wrote: post #2

Unrelated 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.

Did you also use 000webhost.com with .tk domains like me?

Re: Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown

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Post by creatonez »

refulgentis wrote: post #213
creatonez wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You are free to hand out domains for free to strangers, if you so desire. > Nobody stopped anyone from anything. This is impossible, as we have just seen with the ICANN termination of Freenom. Turns out, the legal threats will kill it, even if other TLDs also have plenty of cybersquatting going on. There's realistically no way to repeat Freenom's success in giving out free domains without greatly heightened legal e…

The article claims Freenom shut down of its own free will. Are you reporting otherwise?

> Are you reporting otherwise?

Essentially, yes. Freenom lost its registrar accreditation a few months ago, so all domain names will be forced by ICANN to go to another registrar. I'm assuming they saw no path towards getting it back, due to the difficult nature of complying with reporting correct registrant information for free users.

https://domainnamewire.com/2023/11/10/icann-terminates-opent...

They also just finished a $500 million settlement with Meta.

Re: Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown

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Post by diggan »

internetter wrote: post #198
diggan wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Clearly illegal but not yet handled in the court of law Isn't that somewhat of an oxymoron? What are some examples of something that is against the law but not handled by the courts of law?

I mean not handled yet. Like say I'm hosting pirated content. Yes it's illegal, but it's not Cloudflare's place to say that.

Right, but if brought up to the courts, they would handle it, since it's illegal. But someone needs to prosecute for that to happen.

So it sounds like the system works as intended, as far as I understand.

Re: Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown

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Post by refulgentis »

creatonez wrote: post #215
refulgentis wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The article claims Freenom shut down of its own free will. Are you reporting otherwise?

> Are you reporting otherwise? Essentially, yes. Freenom lost its registrar accreditation a few months ago, so all domain names will be forced by ICANN to go to another registrar. I'm assuming they saw no path towards getting it back, due to the difficult nature of complying with reporting correct registrant information for free users. https://domainnamewire.com/2023/11/10/icann-terminates-opent... They also just fin…

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Re: Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown

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Post by mmsimanga »

thangngoc89 wrote: post #2

Unrelated 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.

In South Africa you could get a za.net domain for free. They stopped new registrations quite some time back as the spam era of the internet was getting started. I still have my domain and use it for all sorts of different things. From email to experiments.

Name server changes are still done through email.

Re: Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown

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Post by znpy »

qingcharles wrote: post #175
znpy wrote: post #141

Uh… if anybody has a legitimate .tk domain, how does one keep it alive?

I used to pay for mine. They were sold through resellers if you wanted to keep it. One advantage of .tk is that they supported emoji domains.

Which resellers?

Re: Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown

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Post by remram »

philsnow wrote: post #200
lolinder wrote: post #26

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> You can’t win with these people This is the classic fallacy of assuming that because you see comments of type A and comments of type B on the same forum that means they're the same people. They're usually not. A more accurate way to phrase this is "you can't win with ... people". Whatever you do will end up ticking off some subset of the population.

There’s a similar problem I encounter from time to time: when I self-identify as “conservative” and express opinion C, many people assume I also hold opinions D, E, and F, because “that’s how all conservatives are”. There are multitudes in every group.

They are not many multitudes in the US. Good on you, but my experience is that most people stick with one group and regurgitate the party lines. I think this comes mostly from very polarized TV shows.

Likewise, if you disagree with them, they instantly assume that you are with the other group. It is strange.

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