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Any way to acquire these ccTLDs (.tk .gq etc) domains without going through the quagmire that is Freenom? There has to be some service that bypasses this kind of gate-keeping. Surprised there's no dedicated NIC for these. http://nic.gq/ doesn't even resolve.

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> Surprised there's no dedicated NIC for these. http://nic.gq/ doesn't even resolve.

Sounds to me Freenom is the NIC, and the reason they're not present on nic.gq, etc., is that they're not very professional, and that their lack of pressionality is correlated with them falling apart right now.

That's right. The 'official' NIC URL for .tk is http://www.dot.tk/, but this is ran by Freenom. Similarly, the official URL for .gq is http://www.dominio.gq, which initially looks different, but it has a "powered by Freenom" logo at the bottom right.

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