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by palad1n 118 days ago
Are there any other TLDs that are of this ilk or are we saying nothing but .com will ever do? Or .org, perhaps?
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ranger_danger 118 days ago
The ones used by freenom were particularly abused:

https://prezkennedy.com/2026/01/15/the-free-domain-trap-the-...

> Freenom’s terms of service allowed them to “cancel” a free domain at any time without warning. Users reported for years that as soon as their free site started getting significant traffic (and becoming valuable), Freenom would reclaim the domain and fill it with ads, effectively hijacking the user’s hard work.

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palad1n 118 days ago
Oh, sh!t, I used to own a .tk! Have no idea what happened to it.
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sznio 118 days ago
At least for the last few years of Freenom, you could only get a domain for up to a year. Once that lapsed, they parked it and you had to pay to extend it further.
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kristofferR 118 days ago
It's not exactly the same, but a lot of owners of weird TLDs have got hit with insane renewal fees,.hosting went from $20/y to $300/y overnight.

Also, some TLDs directly speculate on having very low prices for the first year or two, then 10x it on year 2 or 3.

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ectospheno 118 days ago
Buy all 10 years you can when you get the domain. Renew yearly. When they pull silliness like this you have at least 9 years to migrate.
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Macha 118 days ago
.com, .org have legacy contracts eliminating the shenanigans they can pull. .org did try get out of restrictions on hiking the price on renewals, but weren’t successful. So all my domains are either .com, .org or the TLD for the country where I live (of course, how trustworthy your local ccTLD is varies)
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DetroitThrow 118 days ago
I would love a list of Radix TLDs or registrars who do this Safe Browsing ban with no appeal.

Also, go figure Namecheap works with these morons.

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bjord 118 days ago
from their site (radix.website):

.store, .online, .tech, .site, .fun, .pw, .host, .press, .space, .uno, .website

not sure about other registrars

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kotaKat 118 days ago
Some of these TLD also get thrown under weird arbitrary blacklists by security vendors.

Sorry, can’t buy a frame.work laptop because that’s a “Malicious TLD”, according to the folks at ZScaler.

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