FeedBurner users around the world… rejoice. Two of FeedBurner’s services that previously cost money are now free:

Beginning today, two of FeedBurner’s previously for-pay services, TotalStats and MyBrand, will be free. Not in the sense of soaring high above the clouds or recently sprung from the hoosegow, but free like you’ll no longer gladly be billed on Tuesday for a burned feed today. We suspect this will be welcome news to the 450,000+ of you using many of our other free services, but understanding that your feed is your feed, you will need to activate these newly freed-up services in order to partake in their awesomeness.

Those familiar with previous Google acquisitions shouldn’t be surprised. Most of the paid services that Google buys become free shortly after acquisition. When you’re raking in billions of dollars a quarter from ad sales it only makes sense to rope in new customers with freebies.

TotalStats gives you more information about the traffic to and from your feed (including how many clicks each of your feed items has received). MyBrand lets you turn your feeds.feedburner.com/FeedName address into feeds.yourdomain.com/FeedName. But as the FeedBurner Blog points out… you’ve gotta be comfy with DNS to use that feature.

Current PRO customers will not be charged for June 2007 or beyond. More discussion at Techmeme.