Over the time i have been changing registrars and hosters a few times. I like to pay for a whole year, or maybe just half, because i don’t like to be bothered every month with bills.

Some hosting providers are offering free domains with registrations. In 2001, i step up to that offer and selected a “free domain with a hosting account”. Not a good idea. The domain was a good one, a .org, kinda popular now among certain people.

What did i do with it? Use it for about 2 months, put my site there and started advertising it. It got about 100 hits a day. I was happy. After a while, due to some problems, i wanted to move my stuff to a different hosting provider. Not an easy thing to do. Copied my files, but not the domain. I tried for several times to move from the former hoster, but no go. There was always a problem. The domain was locked, the registration was prohibited, i didn’t answer in time, something was always wrong. After 5 tries and a lot of emails, i gave up.
I felt bad, i registered the same domain with .net and didn’t think too much about it.

When i registered with dreamhost.com, i saw the “free domain” offer. Nope! I am not falling for this trick again!
But some of my friends did, when they registered their  name dot com with yahoo or others and now they can’t use it!

Just say no!