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Could there be some use for a dot TK free domain?

Posted by admin under Free Domains

In my most recent post, The Problem With Some ‘Fake’ Free Domains , I spoke of the disadvantages of both .Co.Nr free domains and dotTK free domains.

As with any other post, I did a little research first and registered some free domains with both of these services. There didn’t seem to be much of a case for using either of these services - until now.

Looking at my Google analytics statistics a week or so later, I noticed a small number of visitors coming from one of my newly registered dotTK domain. One thing that I knew for sure was that I hadn’t shared my new domain with anybody, and it couldn’t have had any promotion from anywhere else. The new domain was Music-Whiz.tk, which redirected to one of my works in progress, Music-Whiz.com. I have been trying to find out where this free traffic is coming from… but it appears to come from absolutely nowhere.

So I tried to replicate the results by registering dotTK domains for this site and a couple of other sites I run. As yet, I haven’t been able to produce the same results.

So I haven’t been able to find out where this traffic is coming from… but I thought it was worth mentioning. Wherever these visitors came from one thing is clear, if you have just started a new website, it seems perfectly reasonable that registering a few free dotTK domain names could in fact benefit your site.

Have you had a similar experience? Please let me know by posting a comment.