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Originally Posted by TenFour
Freenom gets some pretty bad online reviews. Do some Googling before deciding on them. You may get what you pay for in this case. Domains are so reasonable anyway that for anything other than experimentation it is worth paying. One thing I have found is that oddball TLDs can sometimes be a huge spam flag, meaning all of your mail is lost. I once tried a .xyz domain and mail sent from it was hopeless. Never got there.
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I very much agree with that.
I would rely on a free domain only for experimenting or for side-projects I'm not taking very seriously, such as a temporary blog or so.
For any serious website, I'm all for paying for domains (I have several, and happily pay for them)
Of course, an oddball extention can after a while be taken seriously. In theory extentions such as .tv or .to are also just extentions of tiny island nations, but they are widely used and taken seriously by everyone. To lesser extent the same goes for the likes of .nu and .cc (although those are sometimes associated with spamming as well, but they're still widely used). African nations still have a lot of growing potential online, so there is no reason why an extention such as .ml or .ga should remain an oddity. Of course, the future will show if giving domains away for free was the right strategy for them to develop internet presence for their country.