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Free Domain Name is a fully valid second level domain (SLD) name such as mapname.com. Beware that other companies may offer you a third level domain name such as any-name.mapname.com which increases the value of their (SLD) name rather than yours.
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The domain name such as mapname.com can not be free. The majority of the people now believes that there are ICANN registrars that make their own pricing on domain names. This is a common misconception of the competition in domain name business (please read more in domain name history and domain name questions (especially the question about second hand domain name market) sections). There are many ICANN registrars (about 500) and yet there is only one registry for each of the top level domain names such as .COM. The .COM registry (VeriSign) is the only one. It is the monopoly and it does have the fixed wholesale fee of $6/year per domain name available only to registrars. In addition, each registrar has to pay a share to ICANN, so that the competition happens between the wholesale price of $7.95 and retail price of $35.00. Someone has to pay the $6.00 to the .COM registry, cover additional ICANN fees, credit card fees, electricity fees, Internet access fees, maintenance fees, managed dns, domain forwarding, domain privacy, web hosting fees, etc. Mapname.com offers very good way how your own activity can pay off those registry service fees so that your domain name can be completely free of charge......
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