Biggest Scam of 21st Century: Bloggers realise Dot.Tk is a Scam
Dot tk
Now the worlds largest or only free top level domain provider.There are millions of dot tk domains registered all over the internet.Dot tk also gives free Customer services like Mail,Stats,Domain redirection, Name-server settings and lot more.Or in other words we can say that it gives all the facilities and essential features of a premium domain provider.And this makes people go for the dot tk domain.According to their official release
"Dot TK is a joint venture of the Government of Tokelau, a country in the South Pacific, the countries communication company Teletok and BV Dot TK, a privately held company. . The Dot TK Registry is privately funded and has offices in Amsterdam (Netherlands), London (United Kingdom) and Douglas (Isle of Man). With its management team, an experienced staff, multi-redundant backbones in all the countries and DNS root-servers located in every corner of the world, Dot TK can handle millions of registrations."Yes we can conclude that dot tk is doing a great service giving on millions of free domains to the people who has no money to buy popular premium domains like .com, But the problem starts when our blog or website gains success.By success i mean getting about 500 to 100 or more than that page views daily, not exact on the count.
Problem Starts
at this moment what will you feel, when one day suddenly our website disappears and show some ads. "Bricked" that what i will say.So as usual we will turn to our dot.tk dashboard and check for our domain there you will never ever find it.At this moment some geniuses think they will logon to Webmasters tools and put a redirection to save their traffic to another domain, This too will not work as we have lost the Verification.Solution
I don't think there is a Proper solution for this, what i did was ; Luckily i had my blog registered on Technorati.And majority of my traffic was from these types of communities and social networking sites so i manually changed to a new domain and pinged the communities and got about 70% of the traffic back, i lost all my Organic search traffic as there is No way to Fix it.Before going for these types of Free services, always keep in mind about your blog and its capacity as they may try to use its popularity... .....My experience is what pulled me on to blog this