How to register a domain for free

Surprisingly it turns out that many people do not know about the existence of free zones for registration. Moreover, many people pay for domain registration in this zone money - the standard price from well-known registrars is from 5 to 15 cu. for what you can do yourself for free.

Here are the domains you can register absolutely free:
Ukraine
.net.ua, .od.ua, .org.ua, and many types of region.ua
Russia
.com.ru, .net.ru, org.ru, pp.ru, .msk.ru, spb.ru and many other types of region.ru

Below are instructions like "domain free for dummies"
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Register a domain of the third level type in .ru

1) Go to http://www.ripn.net:8080/nic/dns/web-forms.html to register an entry for an organization, individual, or support service. Choose, say, physical person. What you fill out as XXX-RIPN - you need to remember this - this is your identifier.
2) Add a domain to the ns servers.
3) Go to http://www.ripn.net:8080/nic/dns/form/ by entering your username and password.
There is a web form through which it is very easy to register the domain you like. For geo domains, go here www.relcom.ru/Services/Domain/Geographical

The only condition - ns servers must be properly configured in advance.

Register a third-level domain in .ua.

Take the example in the zone .od.ua
1) Create an identifier (NIC-HANDLE) at https://hostmaster.net.ua/?uanew1 .
2) Add a domain to the ns
3) To register, you must send a letter in a special format to the address hostmaster@ns.od.ua.

For example, for the domain mesto.od.ua it will look like this

:
ADD mesto.od.ua

:
domain: mesto.od.ua
descr: Mesto
admin-c: XXXX-uanic
tech-c: XXXX-uanic
nserver: ns1.hostxxxxx.com
nserver: ns2.hostxxxxx.com
changed: your@email 20081103
Nic-handle, ns- email

Where and what to send, you can find here: hostmaster.net.ua/2ld

Now the pitfalls.

First, we need ns servers, in most cases, according to the rules located in physically distant places. However, if you have already ordered hosting with a panel like DirectAdmin or CPanel and the like, you already have an ns server - ask your hosting provider
Secondly, problems may arise with some domains, for example .net.ru could be registered very limitedly, it was necessary to confirm accommodation in the regions, besides, if there are no ns, registration of the domain is not possible and in most cases you will still need to order hosting

If anyone is interested, I can tell you in detail how to easily get around these problems, and how to get hosting for free in most regions, as well as when it’s not worth using.

UPD . thanks to those who raise karma, moved the topic

UPD2. those who are in the comments discussing that free hosting is bad, pay attention once again to the article - it says only about the domain registration process and is not called for anything. Moreover, these domains are free for everyone, that is, a domain that you register for yourself will not be worse than the same one that someone else will register for you for money according to a similar scheme. I believe that the more a person knows, the better, and how to act, everyone decides for himself
UPD3. Who started right away and asks for help in PM - indicate at once what answer came. If you add something from the control panel - it is worth waiting for some time (depending on the settings at your hoster, as a rule, not more than an hour) and then send a request.

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