So im being a tight *** looking for dirt cheap domains not willing to spend the extra buck for better service. I come across http://www.domainsarefree.com, they offer .com domains for 3.99 for 1 year. I think great use my credit card get the domain, i get notice that my domain has been setup and i go into the control panel, says user cannot be found. In the mean time my domain is pointing to this page for domainsarefree.com, a promotion saying you can get cheap webhosting offer expires in 60 minutes.

Soon after im able to access my domain control panel, i change the DNS, add it to cpanel and cpanel says its pointing to my server, i goto view the domain and get nothing but a DNS error (404).

I went to check DNS at a whois site and it says domain is not registered. All the whois servers say domain is not registered. I email customer support 5 days ago go not email back. I try and readd dns as it seems to have been lost in the control panel, and i get an error (Error: Authorisation Error).

I emailed customer support again no reply. I check whois servers no reply....

What can i do??? Its like my money has been taken, my site was mirrored for a second then gone.

Well, you got what you paid for. :D

Only chance is to persist with them.

im being a tight ***
There's your problem right away. There's a reason why domains from reputable sellers cost more than $3.99 a year.

There's a reason why domains from reputable sellers cost more than $3.99 a year.

And the first reason I can think of is that in order to register .com, for example, you must pay $6.00 to Verisign and $0.25 to ICANN, making the total USD6.25 in expenses. Of course, you'll need to add customer service, infrastructure, etc costs on top of that. So, basically you've paid ALOT less than the company's expenses and can't really expect anything good for this price.

By the way, your story doesn't adds up. You write:

In the mean time my domain is pointing to this page for domainsarefree.com

It can't point anywhere if it isn't registered at the registry and propagated at the root nameservers worldwide. You'll simply get an error in your browser. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

And the first reason I can think of is that in order to register .com, for example, you must pay $6.00 to Verisign and $0.25 to ICANN, making the total USD6.25 in expenses. Of course, you'll need to add customer service, infrastructure, etc costs on top of that. So, basically you've paid ALOT less than the company's expenses and can't really expect anything good for this price.

By the way, your story doesn't adds up. You write:



It can't point anywhere if it isn't registered at the registry and propagated at the root nameservers worldwide. You'll simply get an error in your browser. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Thats the point, it was registered, how else could i view the site?

Thats the point, it was registered

And then UNregistered? Well, this is possible (look for other threads that some registrars allow you to unregister domain 4-5 days later), but WHY domainsarefree.com would want to do this for you?

I thought domainsarefree register names manually?

How many hours after you checked out the parking page on your domain were you trying the whois servers? DNS may take up to 72 hours (maybe longer at cheap registrars) to propagate through the entire internet.

DomainsAreFree works fine, no matter what the junior economists say. Conceivably they could have gone all to hell in the past year or so, but last time I used them I had no problems.

Not that it's all beer & skittles. Emails to support can take up to 2 days for a response, and for some applications that's too slow. The control panel is primitive and you can't lock and unlock domains yourself - you have to email support.

Don't panic if DNS propagation takes two or three days - that's not DAF's fault.

I just did a dns change and the propagation took 15 minutes!
Checked with www.dnsstuff.com

As I said in another post... I think anyone who registered a .com domain for under $6 should be banned from posting a complaint at WHT :)

domainsarefree is a skam, they stold me 6$ without registering the domain I asked for

I just did a dns change and the propagation took 15 minutes!
Checked with www.dnsstuff.com


Thats just on your end, not worldwide.

Domain registrsrs and enom usually charge 9.99 for .coms and .nets
.orgs and .infos are really cheap.
This is who I use and I highly reccomend them...
http://registerfly.com You can even become a domain name provider
through this company.

Its definently better to go with a reputable company, I wouldnt pay anything less than $8 for a domain (godaddy, dynadot, etc)