Why My .tk Site Was Deleted by Freenom? | by https://git.io/ilyaigpetrov

why-my-tk-site-was-deleted-by-freenom.md

Permanent link: https://git.io/why-my-tk-site-was-deleted

UPD: Now (October of 2018) Freenom informs you a few days before deleting your site. Thank you, Freenom!

My .tk Site Was Deleted by Freenom

I sustained a site anticensority.tk registered by Freenom.
Site/domain was heavily used but had almost no HTML content.
It also was behind Cloudflare servers for better caching.

One day I found it unfunctional and discovered it was deleted
by Freenom. I sent them a letter asking why it happened.

Response From Freenom

Dear Anticensority Company,

The Freenom Review Team has visited your website today.
Your domain: ANTICENSORITY.TK

We found that the free domain name and/or the website address you used
with your free domain name was not accessible or did not follow the
guidelines set in our terms and conditions.

It may well be that you are still working on the content of your website
and/or using your domain for other means. We kindly request to start using
your new domain soon according to the terms and conditions which can be found at:
http://www.freenom.com/en/termsandconditions.html

In a few days from now we will visit your website again. To prevent domain
hijacking all domains that are not accessible or not follow the guidelines
set in our terms and conditions will be cancelled.

Alternatively, you may upgrade to a Paid Domain. Paid Domains incur a
different set of policies. For example, Paid Domains have no usage requirement.

You can upgrade using the Upgrade tab under domain management for
your domain ANTICENSORITY.TK.

We thank you for using Freenom.

same and didn't receive a single notice. I only discovered what happened when Cloudflare started sending emails for every linked domain warning me that the nameservers no longer point to Cloudflare. When I loged in Freenom account, I found all domains gone, the list was empty without any explication of how and why. I tried re-adding them but it says "Because of technical issues the Freenom application for new registrations is temporarily out-of-order...". 😑

@Ambratolm, did you have any content on your site as a proof that you are not a squatter?

@ilyaigpetrov Squatter? Let's google this. "Squatting is occupying an area of land that the squatter does not own.". Isn't this what we basically do online everyday xD
If you mean registering domain without using it. I have material proofs, but why the effort? They shall take back what they own. Just a warning could of been appreciated in all cases.

I had 3 domains od freenom.. mainly for testing. Since a few days they are all gone...
No trace of them even on the website control panel.
And If I try to add a domain it says it's not possible.

This is the message if I try to register a domain:

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Because of technical issues the Freenom application for new registrations is temporarily out-of-order.
Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience. We are working on a solution and hope to resume operations shortly.

Thank you for your understanding.

I had my GitHub pages site connected to that domain. It was a *.ml site. But now I can't even access the *.github.io site. I can't access my site at all, and that will be the case until I have the cash for an actual domain and hosting.

Just experienced the same thing. I thought I'd forgotten to renew my domains, because they disappeared without notice. So weird! Tried to register it again, but couldn't because of the "technical issues" message, as others reported. And I can still see records of when I registered them, back in 2016.

It wasn't that a big of a deal, but damn, cold. Not even a simple email explaining.

Not recommended