There’s a new site (Me.pn) that is offering free “lifetime” domain name registrations under the .me.pn sub… the angle for the PN is “Personal Network.” I was curious, so I went ahead and registered my name Jennifer.me.pn which I forwarded to my FaceBook page.
I found the User Agreement to be a little confusing because in article 1, they state that commercial use is permitted, but not for illegal purposes (pornography, adultery, violence, abusive language etc) but the in article 8, they state that “Domains are not commercial, and should not be used for commercial purposes. It should only used for personal profile purposes only.” OK, so which is it?
They are not ICANN accredited, rather a local corporation for delivering free domains for the personal network community. They also claim to support NS records, free redirects and unlimited registrations… however, when I tried to use the “redirect” feature, I kept getting an error that said “second name server is incorrect”. I finally got it to work by using name servers, in conjunction with the redirect. I tried to email them using the contact info found at the site, but the emails kept bouncing back.
Also, while they claim to support unlimited registrations on their home page, in their user agreement (article 7) it states
Domain registration does not have a limit, and you are free to register as many domains as you like. But you must use this facility appropriately, if you have more than one domain registration within a minimum threshold our system triggers your request and will destroy all of your domains assigned to your IP address using clever technology. All destroyed domains will be reviewed, and if accepted the domains will be publically re-available for registration.
It seems to me that there are a lot of contradictions… but, hey… you get what you pay for, right?