Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Freenom

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The result was redirect to .tk. Spartaz ^Humbug! 21:33, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Freenom[edit]

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~~Non-notable company.~~ Sources are either press releases, or do not mention the subject. ~~Not seeing anything better in searches. Fails WP:CORPDEPTH as well as the new proposed guideline on company notability.~~ A few additional sources move it to 'borderline' changed !vote to Keep or merge, per my comment below. — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)} 22:17, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - cant find anything online. Barely any sources. Would fail WP:CORPDEPTH Geymarfan (talk) 01:29, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note that this user's contributions only include a half dozen AfD !votes within a couple days, leading me to believe that they are probably the sock of another editor (probably a blocked editor). — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)} 02:03, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 00:15, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 17:40, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - quite a lot of references about (especially with regards to the .tk domain) and certainly not all of them are positive. Shritwod (talk) 23:54, 13 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What references? When someone else has said they have searched and not found anything better, it is probably a good idea to include links to your sources that demonstrate notability. — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)} 00:08, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

For example.. [1] [2][3] [4]. Many references in connection with malware online, that's one thing Freenom is known for, but they tend to lead to industry blog sites which might not be suitable to cite. Shritwod (talk) 00:25, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep or merge to .tk @Shritwod, of the above sources, only the quartz one is any good. The World trademark review source is behind a paywall, so I have no way of identifying how in depth the coverage is, but appears to be routine coverage of legal proceedings. Both of the scmagazineuk.com sources seem to be trivial mentions within stories about other stuff, and so do not contribute to notability. The quartz article is more like what we are looking for to establish notability, but that is only one source, and we require multiple good ones. Searching for other coverage of the .tk domain finds quite a few sources that just barely mention Freenom [1]. However, there are other sources for the company's older name; CNN's coverage of the company and Zuubier would probably work [2], though they call it 'Freedom registry', which was the old name for the company. One issue is that all of this coverage isn't really about Freenom or the Freedom registry, despite containing significant coverage of the company, the stories are about the .tk domain. TonyBallioni was the first to redirect this article to .tk, and I still agree that is a good solution, but should include a merger as well. Per WP:CORPDEPTH, the above sourcing does seem to be enough to establish notability though, if barely, so I guess I'll change my !vote to keep, but a merger is also a good solution. — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)} 01:55, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to .tk. The company is not notable in itself. The .tk domain is. As Insertcleverphrasehere mention, the sourcing barely mentions it. Redirect closes are always superior to mergers at AfDs, IMO, because they are easy to implement and anyone can merge from the history. TonyBallioni (talk) 02:23, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment perhaps a merge would work, but they also have a relationship with .ga and .ml at least. Shritwod (talk) 08:42, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Merge and redirect to .tk. Freenom fails WP:GNG because of the lack of coverage, but is of some interest as part of the .tk ecosystem. I like to include merge with a redirect vote because otherwise readers won't understand why they are being redirected. There's nothing at .tk about Freenom now. BTW - I looked up Kima Ventures, a backer of Freenom, to see if that might be an alternate redirect option, but they were just deleted. [[3]] TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 23:36, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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