Well, free such as it was... First you got your name "free" for a year, then succumb to extortion and buy your name at an inflated price when the "free" year was up.

Anyway, I just noticed that they no longer offer free names. Guess they'll have to change their name to Namenotzero.

Hehe :D

I knew they could not continue offering free domain names.... :)

They had a pretty good business going on. Offer free domain names. By doing that... they:

1. Got ads on all user pages that redirected to sites (didnt cost them anything, unlike free hosting sites)

2. Got millions of email addresses which they SPAM FREQUENTELY (i know, im a user)

3. It's a win-win situation for them. Once the domains were up, they offered them to the people for $20/year. Im sure alot of people were forced to buy them, since technically namezero owned the names and could do whatever they wanted with the domain names. Those who didnt care, well, namezero forwarded their domain to a "sales" page and accepts offers for their domain names.

4. NameZero now is a reputable company (I guess) and they have millions of domain names for sale in their database @ http://www.exclusivedomains.com.... uh, or something like that.

By the sounds of it, NameZero did a good scheme. Normally I make fun of companies that offer ANYTHING free.... but namezero outsmarted us all :(

Originally posted by EluZioN
2. Got millions of email addresses which they SPAM FREQUENTELY (i know, im a user)Yep, me too.

3. It's a win-win situation for them. Once the domains were up, they offered them to the people for $20/year. Im sure alot of people were forced to buy them, since technically namezero owned the names and could do whatever they wanted with the domain names. Those who didnt care, well, namezero forwarded their domain to a "sales" page and accepts offers for their domain names.Yeah, I got stuck having to buy my name at their inflated price. If I would have just bought the name to start off with I would have saved money. At least I had another name that they had to eat. (along with the .net and .org variants that they bought hoping to sell to me :-)

4. NameZero now is a reputable company (I guess)Well, I still get spammed by them from time to time. Who knows how many lists got my email address from them. :mad:

but namezero outsmarted us all :( They sure did. I HATE when that happens. I guess it won't be the last time :-(

Namezero sux...I know nobody asked me, but they do...

Originally posted by VoxKeysGtr
Namezero sux...I know nobody asked me, but they do... It's OK, nobody needed to ask you. Then again, you didn't need to tell us that Namezero sucks. Anyone who got sucked into their scheme KNOWS that they suck.

It's already mentioned, the Exclusivedomain list.

You should have a look at it and find the greatest domains you want to register. You can eitehr buy them straight away for $35 something or check for the expiry date and register them later for $8.88 at cheapdomains.

':)'

Originally posted by EluZioN
They had a pretty good business going on. Offer free domain names. By doing that... they:

1. Got ads on all user pages that redirected to sites (didnt cost them anything, unlike free hosting sites)
Well there are ways of hiding those ads, and as you said they do have millions of domains that they have registered, so it would be impossible for them to catch you. I don't see how they can make enough money to cover their ass. They would register domains with NSI, which is $35 a year, they have to show alot of ads to cover their expenses. But I don't know...

Originally posted by iamdave
They would register domains with NSI, which is $35 a year, they have to show alot of ads to cover their expenses. But I don't know... Not really... they were paying just a small fraction of the regular price. They were a buying in bulk for a very small price per domain.

Originally posted by Abu Mami
Not really... they were paying just a small fraction of the regular price. They were a buying in bulk for a very small price per domain. And you know this, how?