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With the way the internet is growing these days, it's no surprise that there are a ton of people that want to own their own website. There are even more people that want to have their own domain name. Having your own can become a bit difficult. There is of course the option to own a sub domain but that will not help most people, because while they have a domain name by using this method, it will never end up at the top of the Google hit list, no matter how many great keywords they use. For those who don't care about it, that's great because sub domains are generally free so long as you use the free ones, and they are offered by many different websites. So the question on everyone's mind these days, is it possible to get absolutely free domain names?

It is possible to obtain a free name that you actually own, but even free comes with a certain price. One of the biggest issues is that you'll generally end up filling out a lot of different offers. Yes, we've all been through this, the scenario where they offer you something for free, and you get excited thinking you're going to have the newest video game console, or absolutely free domain names in this case, and then they make you answer a bunch of questions. You're fine with the questions, until you get to the one that requires a paid subscription to some ridiculous magazine in order to proceed. That's where you end up drawing the line and clicking on the X.

If you do manage to get your own, and somehow manage to get it without giving up any money, then you'll probably notice that you have to pay for the hosting. Without it, your site will never go live because even though you have your website made, with all of its cute little flash buttons and the like, it's never going to be live on the internet until you shell out the cash for the hosting. Normally you'll discover that the company offering the paid hosting is the same company that you got this free domain from. They're going to get their money no matter what. If you do manage to get free hosting along with absolutely free domain names, then you'll probably find that your page is littered with advertisements over which you have no control. You might be okay with this at the moment, but later on you're going to realize that this isn't the website you had in mind when you went looking for absolutely free domain names.

One more problem you run into, is that if you did not acquire the rights to .com, .org, .net and every other extension under the sun, people will be free to copy your name with a different extension. Say you have rubblecake.com, and someone makes rubblecake.org. This means that others may accidentally navigate to that site instead of yours, costing you both traffic and ratings.

All in all, it's better to buy your domain name if you are serious about having your own website. It's better for you, and it's definitely better for everyone that visits your website on a daily basis.