How to Setup a Free Domain Name
75Introduction
Although the process of setting up a free domain name is self explanatory I decided to take screen captures of each step just so you've got some idea of what is involved and how easy it actually is.
This tutorial is linked to by: How to Build a Free Website
The website I am showing you is: freedomain.co.nr (I'm not affiliated with them in anyway)
How to Setup a Free Domain Photocast
How to Setup the Backlink
Links to Help You with Your Free Domain Name
- Tips on Choosing a Domain Name
This is a comprehensive article on things you should consider before choosing a domain name. It's more aimed at people buying a .com, .net etc... but everything can be applied back to our free example above. - Make Words
This thing makes up random words in your chosen language and generates domain names, it checks to see if the domain name is available and even gives you a link to register it at Yahoo! - Domain Name Generator
Kind of a basic service but still fun to play with, just type in a keyword and it will generate a list of domain names for you. However you need to click a link to see if they're still available. - Web 2.0 Name Generator
Strictly this hasn't got anything to do with domain names, it's spitting out "Web 2.0 style" names. The fun is that these names are probably going to be available when you go to register a domain name - URL Redirection
Hmm, kind of boring. But! Kind of essential if you want to understand what's going on behind this whole url redirection thing. - Hot Redirect
This is another free url redirection service, it doesn't appeal to me as much as the one I used above, but who knows, you might like it more
My #1 for Choosing a Great Free Domain Name
Don't listen to the hype about choosing a domain name stuffed with your keywords UNLESS it makes sense to do so.
For example, if one of my key search terms I am trying to target is "Free Domain Name" it might not make sense to name my website http://www.freedomainname.com/ because for one I'm not actually giving away a free domain name and I'll probably be adding content that doesn't really tie in with domain names anyway.
So it would make more sense for me to name my website something like:
http://www.webmastertips.com/
Although since we're using a free domain name service it would actually look like: http://www.webmastertips.co.nr/ which is still pretty sweet.
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Hi. If u need Free Domain 4 personal or Online job/biz - Just Get your Free Own Domain www yourname info ( Not sub domain yourname.blogspot.com/ uname.5u.com)
More details http://forum.padukai.com/topic1110.html










timmcclure says:
2 years ago
this looks great. Im exsited what do i do next?