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I used to be on EasyDNS and they got acquired by DynDNS many years back. They really have been trying to kick off the free users for a long time. Anyone who's hung on til now is a survivor. They dropped from 5 free hostnames to 2, in 2010. And they have been enforcing this "log into your account monthly" since at least that time. Not 1 year, but at least 4 years or more. That's how I lost my free hostname - because I…
What exactly do you expect from a free service? Seems like they're doing more than enough to accommodate you, a user who makes them nothing while costing them something.
What I expect is that a company should either offer a free service and serve those customers well, or not offer it at all.
Offering a free service, but then being hostile to those people each and every month, is the worst of the options they could take. My 2 cents.
Lots of other companies, including my domain registrar, offer this service for free too.