I'm not sure where I stand on the dot TK issue. It's free, so why are we complaining? But at the same time, I'm wondering why they have to put so many ads, when other sites that offer more could put less. They should require you to put a text ad on the bottom of your page or something. That would work a lot better. When I see text ads of the bottom of good websites telling me "Powered by X", or "X provided by Y", I tend to click on it. But if I see something intrusive such as a giant popup or ads that disfigure the whole entire site, I think otherwise, and just close them out without giving them a second look.

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While not all of your allegations against dot.tk (such as about the forced ads) may not hold true, .tk is pretty crummy. It offers no DNS control at all, and simply provides web forwarding. I can agree that the site design is quite unprofessional and the e-mail forwarding is ok at best. Personally, I like FreeDNS. You can choose from thousands of domains, shared by their domain owners. Some of the domain names are very short and look fairly like a real TLD (us.to, uk.to, info.tm, mooo.com, ig3.net) that you can attach to make your own example.us.to, example.uk.to, example.info.tm, etc. The registration is easy, doesn't ask you to provide much more than your name and your e-mail address. You can set DNS records (A, CNAME, MX, and more), and you can also choose to simply set it up as a web forward (like dot.tk). Because you can use DNS records, it means that you can often host it just like a real domain on many web hosting services.

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.tk keywords
Free, But Not Worth It

Hey all,
I have 2 websites on .Tk now and I'm pleased with their services. There are no popups anymore, only a banner at the top of your page. You can choose to place Tiki links in the banner, and .Tk promises to show these on similar tk web sites, which is very good and certainly draws more visitors to your site. However I have not seen my ad on any other tk site yet.

The only complain I have is this: .Tk creates it's own keywords based on the content of your site. This feature is terrible, since the words may have nothing to do with your site at all. Also, there are sooo many keywords, web crawlers don't like this and therefor you get poor placing in web searches. And when I use a metatag analyzer for my .Tk site, the results are horrible. It couldn't find any useful information on the site. However, when I analyze the real web address of my site, I get good result on my meta tags. This means there is something wrong with .Tk meta tags generator.

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Yes dot.tk is not the best cloaking or url redirection around. Personally i would use freedomain.co.nr its a better website but you have to link to them on the front page of your website. If not your account gets banned.

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