Students and tech enthusiasts and developers, if for any reason you are looking for cheapest possible domain name purchase & free hosting, then read on.
Since many offers come and go, we shall keep this post updated for you with the latest and active offers. Offers, link that actually work, no scam and no ads.
Top Level Domain Name (TLD)
Since there is ICAAN and TLD/ccTLD fee is involved and domain names can’t be cancelled and resold as new when it is once booked or registered, so no one offers you FREE top level domains (TLD). However, there are many companies who runs promotional discounts for first year of registration for getting new customers. There are various .com / .org . / .eu / .net and such extensions and they all have their possible lowest price. Functionally & technically speaking they are all same and they work as same. So rather than finding lowest price for every possible extensions, we shall be looking for lowest of them all.
.online @ USD 1.25
Presently ovhcloud.com is offering .online domains for only USD 1.25 for first year.
https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/domains/
Credit / Debit Cards and PayPal is accepted. Good news for Indian customers, OTP based Indian card payments are supported by their payment getway.
.Online at Rs. 117/-
As on February 2023, BigRock India is offering many domains at extremely discounted rates.
Check here -> https://www.bigrock.in/domain-registration/
.online @ Rs. 99/- + GST
.tech @ Rs. 130/- + GST
All Indian payment systems, including Indian Credit / Debit Cards, UPI, various wallets are accepted.
FREE Full Featured Web Server Hosting
(No Ads)
Since it involves no extra payment to 3rd party by the service provider & can run via open source and free software, there are many free web hosting companies. However not all FREE hosting is equal. Usually software needed to run these services matters. cPanel / DirectAdmin based hostings are considered to be better, full of features and easiest for operate. So here are some list that we felt good enough for people looking for full featured but free web hosting services.
CloudBoxHosting – DirectAdmin
DirectAdmin (full Featured) / Storage: 200Mb / Bandwidth: 1GB (monthly) / Hosted Domains – DB – Subdomains : Unlimited / Free SSL: Yes
Sign up link -> https://clients.cloudboxhosting.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=19
Hosting Seekers – cPanel
cPanel (Full Featured) / Storage :- 1GB / Bandwidth :- 100GB (Monthly) / Single Domain
Sign up Link -> https://www.hostingseekers.com/free-hosting
Both these options supports fully featured shared web hosting with email / database / php and stuff like that. You can host WordPress or any other web apps as you please. They are good for starting up your website / testing and general practice for these technologies. DirectAdmin and cPanel both have excellent tutorials and online articles for any of your needs
Do you know anything else?
If you are aware of anything else that you feel can be added to this list, please do not hesitate to share that in comments. We shall try to keep this list up-to-date as much as possible.
