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by tdkl 3580 days ago
> Also there's the domain names, or rather web addresses, they are too damn expensive.

Really ? A year of a .com, .net, .org costs less then monthly internet bill.

Not to mention there have been many services offering subdomains of a rich domain list in the past.

I used them in the beginning of high school before finally buying a .net, putting it on a home DNS server with IPv6 tunnel and gain "l33t" points on IRC with a custom hostname.

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The domain cost is probably 90% of what it costs to host a web site. The problem with sub-domains is you have a weaker ownership and much higher risk compared to owning a .com domain, it's not like Verisign will shut down anytime soon and take all .com domains with them. I would be surprised if the sub domain you used in high-school still exists and links to your webpage. I also used to run a few web pages on free hosting in high-school, but they have been shut down a long time ago, so the links no longer works. But at least I still have some of the source code saved. After posting I found the .free TLD. I hope it will be like Letsenccrypt, but easier.