…I feel like an idiot.
So I used dot.tk and now am using eu.org (which I found after much search), but it never occurred to me to use FreeDNS ( http://freedns.afraid.org , where I have an account ever since the dinosaurs left the earth, or about 2003/2004), for some reason I didn’t even remember them.
Until today I went to check my subdomain that links to my dynamic ip and noticed this: “A”
“Waiddaminute…A records mean I can just configure it to my webserver ip, innit?”, followed by “Oh, see there’s CNAME, NS and all the others. Let me give it a try.”
vortex69.qc.to A 144.76.???.???
Go to cPanel on the server, add vortex69.qc.to as a domain, and…fucking works.
Although as a strictly free solution it’s more limited than, say, ClouDNS + eu.org, as you can use only 5 hostnames on a free account (ClouDNS is unlimited records and 3 domains), on the plus side it’s more centralized, also easier and faster to get to work (no much waiting for DNS to propagate) and very importantly, it has one less dot (yes, I once found a free web host that pretty much told me my eu.org sub-domain was invalid, too many dots, it was correct of course but was interestingly blunt about it).
(and speaking of that I found a free web host that forbids you from simply pointing an A record to their server, first time I’ve seen that honestly)