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by ivan888 1477 days ago
I have been doing the same thing for years, and just last week I finally executed a personal project I had been thinking about for months, and I just used the free subdomain that came with the hosting provider I used. Also, https://freedns.afraid.org/ is a great source for interesting names
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The problem with freedns is that the vast majority of them being to users. I had dead.sexypenguins.com for several years, and was using it as a vhost for IRC, for email, and as a dyndns name. Then one day it stopped working. I considered buying it myself, but it had already been bought up by the time I noticed. It's still not available now; someone owns it and is not using it for web hosting. The same thing happened to me with various other hosts available on freedns. If the domain you pick at freedns isn't owned by freedns, don't expect it to stay around.