Get Your FREE Domain & FREE Hosting (Really)

A lot of you want to know how to get a domain name without expending any money. Are you testing the online market part-time? Or do you just need a website for your club, organization, or hobby? Well, you can forgo the long domain names of the free websites.

Why get stuck with a long website like: YourSiteHereFree.com/YourClub? Instead, choose from a variety of different free domains that emulate top registered domains such as .com. The following is the breakdown from Confidence Magazine, published here for the first time on HubPages. (FULL DISCLOSURE: We are not affiliated with any of these free domain sites, nor do we endorse one over the other.)

What follows is a "How To" guide on some of the free domain name options available. Even if your long-term goal is a full-time business; with these free domains, you can test what names work best and tryout different branding strategies before you invest the big bucks.

1. En.Eu Free Domains: http://www.en.eu/freedomains

Recently, the most talked about free domain has been EN.eu, which is still in beta testing, and one must request invite. The appeal of the EN.eu Free Domain name is many think it allows one to obtain a cool and free domain name that looks like a real paid domain. Additionally, one can create multiple email addresses on this system that are automatically forwarded to an external email address of one's choice.

The other appeal of the EN.eu free domain is it uses a global network of DNS servers. Thereby, queries to your EN.eu domain name are automatically routed to the nearest DNS server and therefore answered with the best possible performance.

The EN.eu global network includes servers in the United States, Europe, Asia. and South America. Most significantly, an EN.eu free domain name comes with a complete DNS Control Panel allowing one to setup their own A, MX, TXT, CNAME, and other DNS records.

2. Youtube Video listing of free domains:

This Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBjSojZRuNQ&noredirect=1 explores several domain names, including the following:

com.co.in

dot.tk

co.cc

co.nr

cz.cc

ce.ms

cx.cc

vv.cc

da.ru

eu.org

za.net

com.nu

3.Yahoo Answers chose its best answer to the search for free domains and posted it here: http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120524001524AAxZLtU

Best Answer - Chosen by Voters – “There are 3 free domain name registers you should use:

1. http://www.dot.tk (.tk)

2. http://www.domain.co.cc (.co.cc), or

3. http://www.freedomain.co.nr (.co.nr)."

"I would suggest the .tk domain name as it's free and very reliable with all the features of a typical domain name.”

4. Article on the Best Free Domains

http://www.prchecker.info/web-hosting/best-free-domain-name-services/

This comprehensive article on the best free domain names breaks it down as follows: and thus we list the reviews of the top 5 free domain name providers according to the features and quality of the offered services:

FreeDomain.co.nr (free .co.nr domain)

Biz.nf (free .co.nf domain)

Co.cc (free .co.cc domain)

Dot.tk (free .tk domain)

Biz.ly (free .biz.ly domain).

5. Free Domain at .COM, .NET, .ORG, etc.

Finally, if you want to be traditional, then pay a few dollars to host your website with a reliable web hosting provider. Many of these hosting providers will give you a free custom domain when you pay for hosting. You can get a free domain name with .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, or .us extension included with the website hosting plans of some of the following:

HostGator

iPage

HostMonster.

One caveat everyone should be aware of is: when choosing a free web hosting provider, some are not reliable. Therefore, keep copies of all your files on a hard disk and use reliable paid web hosting like Go Daddy, when you have important websites being set up. But again, if you are testing new products, trying a new brand strategy, or experimenting with visitor response; a free web hosting provider could be perfect. Here's the breakdown:

If you decide to pay for premium web hosting at a paid site, you can save a lot of money by using promo codes and waiting for sales. Now that you know how to establish your web presence for $0, there is no excuse for you to not have a website.