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April 7, 2006 3:29 AM

Where can an honest man find a free place to park his domain for a while?

Due to dire financial constraints, I can no longer afford web hosting. However, I don't want to lose my domain, and want to keep it pointing somewhere for free, and host about 20kb of data to put together a page explaining to people what's going on. My site doesn't get huge amounts of traffic.

Where's the best place to do this? Googling for free webhosting, as you might expect, doesn't provide me with much useful information. Who offers this service, and who can be trusted not to dissapear / fill my site with horrendous pop-up ads for internet optimizers?

posted by Jimbob to computers & internet (12 comments total)

You'll still need to pay the domain name. I think UKreg will do what you want, if you can put up with a generic "coming soon" page. I use it. It's in the UK, but I'm in Australia too!
posted by cogat at 4:16 AM on April 7, 2006

What the hell. Email me, and we'll sort something out. My good deed for the day.
posted by cogat at 4:17 AM on April 7, 2006

Oh I know I still need to pay for the domain name. I just want somewhere to put up a page explaining where my site has gone for a while. (Expect an email soon :)
posted by Jimbob at 4:19 AM on April 7, 2006

If you've got cable/adsl/whatever, you could always host it yourself. Most ISPs say "no servers", but don't care unless you're making a nuisance of yourself.
posted by Leon at 4:26 AM on April 7, 2006

Microsoft is essentially giving away domains at the moment.
posted by arco at 4:28 AM on April 7, 2006

Most ISPs also give you a few mb free to host personal web pages. And there's Angelfire and the other free places.
posted by JamesMessick at 4:54 AM on April 7, 2006

If you've got cable/adsl/whatever, you could always host it yourself.

My current financial situation (not to mention location) mean I'm stuck on dial-up, at least for the next month or so.

Most ISPs also give you a few mb free to host personal web pages.

This is a good point - I'll check on this.
posted by Jimbob at 5:25 AM on April 7, 2006

Yes, my ISP does offer some personal webspace, and my domain registrar offers free URL redirects, so I'm set. Thanks for your help, and thanks to the people who offered to host for me!
posted by Jimbob at 6:29 AM on April 7, 2006

Microsoft is essentially giving away domains at the moment.

Wow! Are they transferrable?
posted by sonofsamiam at 9:44 AM on April 7, 2006

I would recommend nearly free speech. i think it's very very cheap for what you want :)
posted by karen at 10:23 AM on April 7, 2006

Microsoft is essentially giving away domains at the moment.

Has anyone had anything following sign-up? I signed up with 3 email addresses but nada.
posted by ceri richard at 12:53 PM on April 7, 2006

I second Nearly Free Speech. You only pay for what you need. It's a dollar a gig. If you send them one dollar with paypal, that should cover your bandwidth needs for years.
posted by lockle at 8:26 PM on April 7, 2006