How to get a free eu.org domain
If you want a name that costs nothing and is not yoursite.github.io, eu.org is the one that has actually lasted. It has handed out free third-level domains since 1996. You request yourname.eu.org. A human looks at it. If they say yes, you point DNS where you want. There is no yearly bill.
This is not the European Union. Their own homepage says so. Do not put “official EU” anywhere near the name.
What you get
- A name like
weekone.eu.orgoraryn.eu.org. - $0 to register. $0 to renew. People on Hacker News have kept one for a decade.
- You pick the DNS (Hurricane Electric, Cloudflare, your VPS). Many hosts will treat it like a normal domain.
You do not get a .com. You do not get instant approval. Some country boxes under eu.org (CY, GR, NL) are handled elsewhere and nic.eu.org will reject those requests.
Steps
- Open nic.eu.org and create an account.
- Read the policy page. They want people and nonprofits who cannot pay a NIC, not a warehouse of parked names.
- Request one name you will actually use. Have nameservers ready (Cloudflare on a free account is enough).
- Wait. Community reports still cluster around two weeks. There is no paid skip line.
- When it is live, add an A/AAAA or CNAME to your host. GitHub Pages can sit behind it if you want; you do not have to.
Will they say no?
Yes, if the name looks like a trademark grab, a phishing kit, or you already hoard a pile. Ask for one name. Use it. That is the whole strategy.
Faster $0 options while you wait
Need something today? you.is-a.dev (GitHub pull request) or youruser.github.io. Use the hunter on the home page to see if an is-a.dev slug is already taken.
If someone sold you a “scrape leftover .coms for $0” tool, read why that pile does not exist. Famous shutdowns are the same story — dead startups almost never drop the .com.
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