Today I stumbled on to an interesting piece of news. Sites with Yugoslav domain .yu will no longer be available from tomorrow, 30th September. Actually ICANN removed .yu domain from the list of approved country domain names in 2006, but they still continued to support it to give extra time for sites to transfer to a different domain. Now they have decided that the time has come. They have a simple & fair reason, it should be appropriate to use .me or .rs domian (respectively for Montenegro & Serbia) as Republic of Yugoslavia has been broken into these two countries 
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In April, I wrote a blog post about .co.cc asking for renewal payments. It was like cheating regular .co.cc users who started using it knowing it would remain free. Recently I noticed that .co.cc has updated & clarified their policy to some extent. If you are using the domain for personal, non-commercial purposes only then you don’t have to pay renewal fees. You can use it for free as long as you wish. That’s certainly a good news to the general user base of this domain. However if you use it for commercial purpose, you can register .co.cc for free but have to pay renewal fee each year. The current renewal fee is $3 per year. But I doubt how many users use it for commercial purpose & if it is really good idea to use such a free domain for commercial sites. [...]
Yeah! You can get a free .com domain name for one year & there are no strings attached. Register.com, one of the most trusted domain registrar is giving away this promotional offer. Actually the offer has been available for a long time. It is said to be for small business. But I contacted the support & they told me that anyone can register with valid info. And you can transfer your domain without having to pay them. Probably you will transfer at the end of the year, as the renewal fee is $35 for Register.com. So it’s better to transfer the domain to GoDaddy or NameCheap. But remember, it usually takes about 5 days to transfer a domain between domain registrars. So don’t leave it too late to avoid any complicacy. Start the process a week or two prior to the domain expiry date. [...]
Did you notice the policy change? Look before you settle for a free .co.cc domain. It is not free for life anymore. You can still register it for free but only for a year. Then you have to pay for renewals. Here is what they have to say in the FAQ:
1. Can I use my free domain forever? 
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.mx ccTLD was launched in 1989 in Mexico. But it was only available for limited registrations to schools & universities. Others had to use sub-extensions like .com.mx or .net.mx etc. As .edu.mx sub-extension was introduced for school & colleges during 1996, .mx domain got disappeared from the seen in 1997. Now after 20 years of its initial launch it is going to be relaunched publicly. [...]
If you want to buy a domain via unverified Paypal account, then go to Namecheap.com & buy it. They are the only one, that i have found, that accept fund from unverified Paypal account. When i started blogging few years back & got some money in my unverified Paypal, i wanted to buy a domain. I have searched a lot & found only them to rescue me. [...]
Free domain! That really can attract you as a newbie. But read before you use one. Most of the free domains are nothing but url redirection services. They will give you a nice little url instead of your long one.
But url redirection creates framed webpage. That’s where the trouble comes from. Search engines like Google or Yahoo cannot crawl through the content of a framed webpage. They will just index the title, meta keywords & description. [...]
Godaddy is selling .me domain just for $14.95 per year. It attracted me & I searched the net to find some interesting aspects that you should consider before buying one. [...]