Quote from http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=482722 :

WINRAR 3.51 Free Sunday July 30th 2006
WinRAR Voted Overall Best Utility for SIAF People's Choice Award

The people have spoken and voted WinRAR as Best Overall Utility. Each year the
Shareware Industry Awards Foundation (SIAF) asks computer users from all over
to vote for their favorite software.

Thanks for all your support and for voting for WinRAR. It was a great honor for
us to receive such an award.
To Say Thanks and to Celebrate: Get the Winner WinRAR 3.51 for FREE on Sunday
In order to thank everyone who voted for us and made it possible for us to
win this prestigious award, we are offering the WinRAR 3.51 single user license
non upgradeable version this Sunday the 30th of July 2006 from 00:00 until
24:00 CET for absolutely FREE. Please click the following link which will become
active on Sunday. Fill out the form on that page in order to receive further
information via e-mail about how to get your FREE version of WinRAR.
http://www.win-rar.com/

I'll take that with grain of salt, but it'd be nice if it is true.

I'm calling the BS flag on this one....

Mm... I've always thought the official page was http://www.rarlab.com/ ?

I dunno, we'll just have to wait, I think it's legit, maybe a simple email to them may help?

Quote from deggis :

Mm... I've always thought the official page was http://www.rarlab.com/ ?

so did i, although the page looks pretty legit, ill do a whois

EDIT - http://whois.net/whois.cgi2?d=www.win-rar.com - Registered in Bremen, Germany, no mention of rarlabs, just Winrar, which seems fishy, although it has been registered since 2 days ago, 2001!

I always thought it was www.rarsoft.com

In the help menu of winrar you can select to go to the homepage, which takes you to: http://www.rarlab.com/

Quote from 96 GTS :

I always thought it was www.rarsoft.com

Actually, always been http://www.rarlab.com/. If you click on partnerships on that site, it goes to their win-rar domain. It is just tons of needless domains.

I find it strange that they have the other domain. But this 'deal' they have announced could be real, or couldn't be. Remember when DivX was giving away free versions of their player and codecs? I got that deal, and it was legit. Not sure about this though.

I thought it was free? It doesn't force you to register or anything...

Quote from Roadie :

I thought it was free? It doesn't force you to register or anything...

No it doesn't force you, but at random times with using the trial version, an annoying popup reminder comes up telling you to register it. You aren't denied usage of the program if you don't register, but still, it's nice not having the annoyance

http://www.7-zip.org/

For all your compression needs.

Quote from Bean0 :

http://www.7-zip.org/

For all your compression needs.

i like it, but its to clunky to open files with, although most of my compression is done into natty little self extracting exe's

i can get S2 into 109 Mb with it, and with my special "homemade" Demo version with all the extra S1 & S2 content removed, extra languages removed and minor compression added to certain aspects i can get the dir to 138 mb, and turn that into a self extracting exe which is 54 Mb, which isnt bad, i would like to release it (people often complain because 138 mb is alot for dialup or they dont have Winzip), but i need to get Scawens permission first

Quote from www.rarlab.com :

Copyright © 2002-2006 Alexander Roshal. All rights reserved.
win.rar GmbH - the official publisher for RARLAB products - handles all support, marketing and sales related to WinRAR and www.rarlab.com.

Oddly linked, but they're related.

I 've had my registration key,it has been quite long but

well i tried to get it, but their site was down, now im on a fresh version of XP with no winrar