When you buy a domain from Google Domains or GoDaddy, you have to pay a price for the domain and then you get access to the domain for a specific amount of time but some domain registrar like [Freenom]([http://freenom.com/](http://freenom.com/)) allow you to get access to some domains for free. How does those work and does Freenom pay for those domains?
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Each top level domain is handled by different authorities. So the process of creating a domain in each of them is very different. In most cases it requires some training and fees to become a registrar but then these registrars can create domains for their customers for free or at least very cheap. But some top level domains have very different business practices. They may be offering domains for free but they might not have the staff to properly handle things like trademark conflicts and abuse of the service. And for getting the money to run the service they can sell their user logs or even just replace websites with clones containing advertisement banners.
If you check on their website they explain it themselves. They are backed by Kima Ventures, a venture capital firm. This means they are getting money from the investment firm that is expecting them to grow and become more valuable in the future; they don’t need to make money today for that to happen so the reality is they are just losing money.
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