Free Domain Name and Hosting for One Year
The words “free” and “Microsoft” don’t often appear in the same sentence, so imagine my surprise at discovering this deal: a free custom domain name, free Web hosting, free e-mail accounts, and more.
As you might expect from the name, Microsoft Office Live Small Business has a decidedly business focus–but that doesn’t mean you can’t use it for a personal site.
The freebie account includes not only the domain (any available .com, .net, .org, or .info address), but also site-building tools, reporting tools, project and document managers, 100 e-mail addresses, and collaboration-minded online workspaces. You get 500MB of storage, too.
So what’s the catch? There really isn’t one, though the free domain hosting expires after one year. After that, it’ll run you $14.95 annually.
Photo by Microsoft.
Jaclyn on February 19th, 2009 8:16 am
that is so true, you don’t often get free products from the internet these day’s especially not from microsoft. i was waiting for the price to be some outrageous amount after the one year free promotion, but 14.95 is actually pretty darn cheap if you ask me for everything that you get for it.
geekmom on February 19th, 2009 8:06 pm
you get what you pay for. i’d rather have a linux host any day.
subash chandra poudel. on October 4th, 2009 2:35 am
Hmm.I think the domain provided by microsoft is not top level domaina! they provide only sub-domain isnt it?
waiting for reply.
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