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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '2000-04-17T02:32:37'
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title: Offering another example of a
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Offering another example of a dot com company falling over backwards to provide free services for users, [namezero.com](http://www.namezero.com) provides free registration of domain names (com, org, and/or net). The catch? Well, there's at least two. First, the domain is actually registered under the name of the namezero folks, though you "_retain the right, title and interest in and to the Namezero Domain name_ ". Second, the created page is really just a frameset with the top 90% pointing at your own content stored elsewhere and the bottom 10% a namezero navigation bar. For an example, you can look at this weblog at [www.kestrelsnest.com](http://www.kestrelsnest.com). If you don't mind that bar at the bottom of your pages, this might be a neat service. It has web-based and POP email (eric@kestrelsnest.com should get to me, though I haven't tried to set that up yet) and easy to set up subdomains (again, a frameset with pointers. [godot.kestrelsnest.com](http://godot.kestrelsnest.com) will take you to my _Weblog for Godot_ , for example.). I've yet to find what their revenue source is. I imagine they're planning on banner ads on the nav bar or something.