incrediBILL - 9:05 am on May 7, 2008 (gmt 0)

Your friend could still run his store like this, even for free, if these services locked down their account creation utilities to stop automated services from registering bogus account used by the botnets.

However, if these services fail or refuse to fix their services to stop abuse, I'm suggesting a block on the free accounts being abused.

The upshot here is at least one free dns service (i assume several) would jump on the bandwagon and secure their free account creation so everyone would have options.

Worse case you can still do what you're doing for free using your domain name with a service like yi.org, it's both free AND it's your own domain name. However, if you wish to stay with that other service it's about $30/yr for using your own domain, fairly minimal.

See, there are alternatives that eliminate the subdomains being abused and allow you to use those services for free with your own domain, so shop around and you'll find a better solution than you already use for the same low $0 price.