FreeDNS by Afraid.org Reviews and details

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• Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown

  You can still get free subdomains from all kinds of providers, eg https://freedns.afraid.org/ You just can't get a TLD, which does kinda suck, but still. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown

  We still have https://nic.eu.org/ and the rest of https://freedns.afraid.org/ . - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

  Freedns.afraid.org — Free DNS hosting. Also, provide free subdomains based on numerous public user contributed domains. Get free subdomains from the "Subdomains" menu after signing up. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Setting up a server (minecraft semi-obviously)

  Was bored, made a stupidly large modpack, wanted to spend free time on making server pack and testing methods of self server hosting My question is how I could be able to SAFELY link an IP to freedns.afraid.org Ik I could use a VPN but idk which I could use safely and free (I poor :( ) and with little limits My friend used zerotier before but I was never able to get it to work and idk if its even still ok to... Source: 5 months ago

• Tips for setting up DDNS with freedns.afraid.org?

  I have installed Dynamic DNS, selected OPNsense as the Backend and am trying to get DDNS working with freedns.afraid.org. Source: 9 months ago

• freedns.afraid.org transfer domain

  I have a domain hosted in freedns.afraid.org. How can I transfer the domain away from this website? I want to host it in Route 53 along with my other domains. I can't seem to find an option to transfer the domain in my account. I don't have a premium plan by the way. Source: 10 months ago

• Free domain name?

  If you don't third level domains (e.g. mydominaname.nya.pub) then you can use: Https://freedns.afraid.org/ I personally took few from nya.pub for myself. I don't own server anymore but domains after few years are still mine and I haven't spent any money on them. Source: 10 months ago

• EASY remote viewing

  You can get free subdomains here: https://freedns.afraid.org/. I've been using a subdomain of mooo.com for years. Source: 10 months ago

• What are you all using for dyndns?

  I used to use https://freedns.afraid.org/ but my Mikrotik router includes the feature built-in and since it's not well know, some places (like my work) don't block it. Source: 11 months ago

• What are you all using for dyndns?

  Been using https://freedns.afraid.org/ for a very long time until my domain registrar (ionos) started offering an API that allows using my own domains directly. Source: 11 months ago

• What are you all using for dyndns?

  For many years I have been using: https://freedns.afraid.org. Source: 11 months ago

• IPv6 Port Forwarding no Route to Host with some providers

  So your ISP does not trust the do.de DNS servers, not sure we can do anything about that. You can change DynDNS provider. I have been using https://freedns.afraid.org for 10+ years and with both IPv4 and IPv6. Source: 11 months ago

• Do I need ddclinet for ddns?

  Hi guys! I succesfully created a vpn server using raspberry pi and I managed to create a domain name using free ddns provider: freedns.afraid.org. After a week or so everything was ok but one day I could't connect to my vpn server. When I arrived home I discovered that my public ip address in my ddns provider didn't changed. Do I have to install something like ddclient? Source: 11 months ago

• finding a free (sub)domain-provider with decent dns

  I did use freedns.afraid.org but migrated to Cloudflare. Source: 11 months ago

• Any suggestions for a kids private server?

  You can use a service like NoIP or freedns to get a free subdomain that can be linked to your IP instead of typing it out. Source: 12 months ago

• Setup Nextcloud using Ngnix on a docker container

  You need dynamic dns (dyndns). If you google for this, you should find guides how to setup dyndns. If would suggest to use freedns.afraid.org, it is free and you can create your own subdomain from a list of domains. The basic idea is to create a script which runs periodically (e.g. Every 5 minutes) which tells the dyndns provider your current IP address. Source: 12 months ago

• Host a blog for free with a free domain name? Is there a way?

  I used to use FreeDNS: https://freedns.afraid.org/. Source: 12 months ago

• Host a blog for free with a free domain name? Is there a way?

  I use https://freedns.afraid.org/ for my server at home. Source: 12 months ago

• Self hosted public DNS Server

  I used a free domain from freedns.afraid.org, but in some environments the firewall blocked their ns and the resolver no longer worked. Also I hosted it at home and forwarded the ports but in the local hospital, for some imperscrutable reasond, all ip marked as residential are blocked by the firewall .... Source: 12 months ago

• The Free DNS Project

  In that case, please clearly state it is the unofficial subreddit for "freedns.afraid.org" so others will know. Source: 12 months ago

• Looks like freedns.afraid.org is down

  Try to log by https://afraid.org and ignore warnings. Then logon will redirect to https://freedns.afraid.org, at this point use one again address without "free" ex. https://afraid.org/subdomain. Source: about 1 year ago