Show HN: Free Brandable .com Domain Names

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4 points·vincent_s··6 comments

What an incredibly bad deal.

The required 12 months of webhosting is £2.99/mo now bill £35.88 Excl. VAT

Then the 'Review and Complete' page bills for my choice from the landing page of 'roodhen.com' which a whois shows is unregistered anyway, listed as £12.99 Excl. VAT, 'domain privacy' is £9.00/year Excl. VAT (listed as Regular: £18.00/year - which I think is illegal as 'discounted' prices must be listed at regular price a good amount of the majority of the time IIRC, at least UK), plus VAT on all of that is £11.58, leading to a grand total of £69.45.

What a scam. An equivalent offer with Dreamhost would be almost half that, and I'm sure there's cheaper still.

You don't have to take that deal. You are free to register those domains at Dreamhost or anywhere else.

Nice names I like. Not to discount that at all. The ones on the landing page are quite catchy.

But the..

> £12.99 Excl. VAT

..doesn't seem that free.

You don't have to pay me anything to use those domains. However, to use a .com domain name you need to go through a registrar who will charge you a yearly fee.

You can read more about registering domain names at ICANN [1].

[1] https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/register-domain-name-2...

I was confused by the title, it's not "free" as in no-charge, but free as in "available".

Hey, this is an awesome resource. Thank you for making this!

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