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Hazel,

The theory is that freehosting isn't controlled by you -- it could disappear and your sites could be redirected. Linklist owners are very careful to make sure that the sites that they list are surfer-friendly. That way, they get the steady traffic and bookmarkers, it flows through to the people that are listed.

When people cheat and redirect sites or free-hosting disappears overnight, that injustice affects the branding that the Linklist owners have been creating.

So, they banned freehosting -- the way your site is set up, it is questionable as to whether it is freehosted or not, therefore, it falls within that ban. One might call it collateral damage.

Whether you believe it is right or wrong, it is up to the Linklist owners to manage their list in a way that guarantees that they get the surfers to continually come back.

Then there is the fact that freehosting is throwaway hosting for many cheaters. Those cheaters load pages, there's no easy ownership accounting, and the cheater redirects the pages after it is listed. He can then try again next week on a different freehost. Without there being some financial incentive behind putting up decent pages and content, there is little risk to you if you don't follow the rules.

I don't believe the Linklist owners make any kickbacks from hosting or banning particular providers.

However, that rule has been in place for years, and I really doubt that any amount of complaining will change it.

If you want the traffic, delegate your nameservers to your paid webhost.