What do you think about free domains?
 

Services like this: http://www.freeavailabledomains.com/

the offers free domains, kinda cool to build a few blogs I guess.

Not really.

.cc got canned by google if I remember right, because of this very thing and people using them for spam.

You get what you put in to it. If you don't think a blog or site is worth spending ten bucks over for a real domain then why even bother?

:2 cents:

And a free domain will end up costing you more in the long run. Yes, costing more. They will charge you crazy prices like $50 to renew something a year or so later if you want to keep it.

Ooops, I forgot, it wasn't .cc that got canned but it was this and similar services because they were being used for spam.

Don't waste your time!

If the setup time is 5 minutes and there will be no maintenance, let's say you have a technique to make $5 per year from the domain/site and you live in a third world country; probably onto a winner

sounds legit.

you'll be building traffic for them and you'll only have a subdomain, not a domain. There are no free meals, sorry :2 cents:

it was .co.cc that got canned. .co.cc wasn't an official subdomain, but a company that was giving away "free domains" like this.

I posted some free boys name blog.com names today. There are some girls blog.com names also. Some of them are pretty good if you have a name like burt or mabel

you are supposed to use it for links, not build traffic to these domains... you get 100s different ones = 100s of free links... there is a little more to it, but you get the idea ;)

Lol I know exactly what you mean, did that years ago and it worked (then). But when the time comes for all those domains to renew it's going to cost a small fortune. I guess it's worth it just for the year or so though..

nevermind

these domains aren't on "sale" for free, they're free period. Not example.com, think free subdomains like example.co.cc.

.co.cc has been delisted from google, so they're practically worthless.

It's a sub domain provider. There are uses for the sub domains. :) Just need to get creative.