[FreeDNS] Why use FreeDNS?

[Samuel Murray <leuce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

G'day everyone

Here's just a question for general discussion.  Why do you think people
want to use FreeDNS, or why do you think people should rather not use
FreeDNS?  In other words, what are the pros and cons (but viewed
subjectively instead of objectively)?

Pros:
* It's free (and so no worrying about payments)
* It shows your support of the libre culture
* You might not be identified by bots as South African

Cons:
* Updating your nameservers can take long
* You might not be identified by bots as South African
* Confusion over the phone when you say your domain name

Your comments?

As for confusion over the phone, I have actually experienced this when a
client of the business I work for, phoned in his e-mail address, and the
secretary wrote such-and-such.co.za, and after much confusion of
undeliverable mail, it turned out to have been such-and-such.za.net.
Often, people listen with only half an ear when they're expecting to
hear a certain something. :-)

As for the bot identification, one of my web sites was rejected by a
South African search engine/directory because the domain name doesn't
end on "za".  But after a nice e-mail to the directory's administrator,
explaining what the FreeDNS is, sites from za.net and za.org are now
also considered "South African" by that directory's bot.

Samuel

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