They did not even give me a single chance to reply to their email as it would be returned "fatal error – mailer daemon".

I do understand Lycos’ position on this, as they don’t want anyone using their free web hosting service for anything unethical and don’t want to get their name mixed up with it. But that doesn’t help you or me if we are in the right and are in a right old fix.

I later contacted Google, Yahoo, MSN, ClickBank and Nochex (under the DMCA –Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and sent them all my documentation and affidavits and they totally killed him off the net – even to today.

If I’d had a paid host I would have been able to explain the situation and have it dealt with in a proper fashion, but unfortunately with Lycos, I didn’t have a leg to stand on as it was free hosting; they just cut my site off.

Another thing is that some free web hosts like Lycos, use very intrusive pop-up adverts, which is very annoying to visitors and an absolute killer for any site - especially a business website.

I’m not kidding; some of their adverts can completely cover your entire web page! This leaves the visitor to click on the ‘back-button’ and end up giving your website a complete miss – and rightly so.

Let’s face it; what right-minded customer will take your business seriously if they think that you cannot even afford to pay for your own web hosting?

You will also be limited to how and what you name your website and it is likely to be a very log-winded URL as well, such as: http://www.members.freehost.co.uk/yourdomainname (who’s gonna remember that?)

Conclusion:,

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