discuss .INFO General Discussion

[Jacks86]

Lots of life in this gtld, yet there is no general .INFO thread. Therefore I am starting one as of now!

Looked at the sales over the last couple months: https://namebio.com/?s=gN2YzN4UzM

3L, 3N, 4N, random one word and large domains are selling across many different auction houses which is a good thing.

 

[premkumar]

Yes i own .COM not .INFO. I feel its better to spend $9 .COM then buying $1 .INFO and spend hours on contacting end user. Still even with .COM i didn't tasted my 1st sale.

 

[premkumar]

Some of my domain targeting local business are:
HouseCleaningSandiego.com
LosAngelesLimousineServices.com
ROOFREPAIRCHARLOTTENC.com

Is it anything wrong in the domain name?

 

[premkumar]

I am ready to test the methods and post you the responses. Hope we can come with technique's to improve our sales to end users. I believe their is a huge domain market for local business. Just that we need to professionalize our approach.

 

[Mahogany]

We could argue our points until we're both blue in the face! I'll leave it alone by saying this.... I wouldn't buy or reg 600+ .infos a year if I wasn't making any profit. My profit may be nothing compared to some of the bigger players.... But its all relative.

Additionally, I keep the highest CPC and keyword match domains for my adsense, amazon and cpa personal projects.

 

[TravisS]

We could argue our points until we're both blue in the face! I'll leave it alone by saying this.... I wouldn't buy or reg 600+ .infos a year if I wasn't making any profit. My profit may be nothing compared to some of the bigger players.... But its all relative.

Additionally, I keep the highest CPC and keyword match domains for my adsense, amazon and cpa personal projects.

I kind of hopped in the thread without reading every word of it. What I said was more of a blanket statement, comparing selling .com or whatever vs. .info. If there's a will, there's a way. .Info's are rather plentiful, cheap to register, etc. Risk is low and the savings translate into no brainer $100, $200, etc., sales for a buyer. Plus, the added benefit that your less likely to be "tied" to the name. This is IMO, but I never really got incredibly sentimental with any of mine. Easier to do away with. I think I've owned roughly ~1000 .info names; give or take a hundred or 2. Never really saw much from them parking-wise, or inquiries, etc. To be sold, they needed the outreach. I think it's a tough nut to crack if you have limited experience going into it. Some names, extensions, etc., just being easier and a little more liquid; depending of course.

I don't want to contradict anything I stated before haha. So I said over-valued investor-wise, and undervalued end user, etc. I think .info's ballooned up in value because a handful of buyers which made for a bit of feeding frenzy in a sense, that never really amounted to a whole lot. "Buy a .info and flip it on Flippa"...sort of deal. I think your not likely to see the return of lets say parking a .info vs a .com (number of inquiries, resale price, etc.,). I think I mostly just didn't want to see a member on here post a massive list of all the .info's they just hand-registered, and asking for appraisals on em' haha. And me using "you" doesn't mean you lol, that's just the pronoun I used lol.

 

[Mahogany]

I understand where you're coming from brother. Totally.

And just to clarify and add context on my post.... I'm not a "real" domainer....

I'm a developer that stumbled here looking for long tail domains for Adsense sites years ago. As my SEO knowledge increased and then my budget to outsource increased, I gravitated towards .infos ranking and budget purposes.

Selling to end users became a bonus for me and extra income because of my ability to have great websites created for little to nothing.

If I were purely a domainer and made most of my income via end users I wouldn't invest as much time as I do in infos and hold as many as I have.

For service related companies and geo businesses.... It just makes since from an organic traffic point of view to use infos instead of brandables.

 

[TravisS]

I understand where you're coming from brother. Totally.

And just to clarify and add context on my post.... I'm not a "real" domainer....

I'm a developer that stumbled here looking for long tail domains for Adsense sites years ago. As my SEO knowledge increased and then my budget to outsource increased, I gravitated towards .infos ranking and budget purposes.

I consider myself a part time of all the above (domainer, developer, etc., and toss in a "normal" job with flexible hours that pays most of the bills lol). I don't think I'd be saying anything no one has heard already at some point, by saying "domaining" isn't a...well let's say loosely defined as squatting. Not that it is, that's just word on the street lol. In reality, most of the time domaining and developing are one of the same. If you spend enough time developing, there's a good chance you've had offers come your way, "easier money", etc., etc. in some respects especially if developing, designing, etc., isn't as profitable as one would hope right out of the gate. At the least, an alternative cash flow. And if you can code and know your way around domains, well then your set lol. That's the basis of my argument anytime I get the pissed off inquirer who's just beyond my skills to work with lol. "Well, if you're the incredible developer you claim to be, than you should know how to value a domain" and/or "If I came knocking at your door with ~$5k in hand for one your names, don't pretend you wouldn't sell it". Of course as the majority of us know, it can take just as many resources to acquire names, as it does the time, knowledge, etc., to learn a language, build something, etc., etc. All inter-related.

 

[namerav]

any value for hyphenated .info domains?

 

[namerav]

any value for hyphenated .info domains?

 

[namerav]

any value for hyphenated .info domains?

 

[Mahogany]

any value for hyphenated .info domains?

For end users... $0

But I've ranked hyphenated .infos for Amazon and Adsense sites and they rank like any of the other top three extensions. If

 

[apapu]

what do you think about my 5N .info's

18885.info
18886.info
28883.info
28887.info
28889.info
38882.info
38885.info
38887.info
58881.info
58882.info

how much i can sell them?

 

[TravisS]

what do you think about my 5N .info's

18885.info
18886.info
28883.info
28887.info
28889.info
38882.info
38885.info
38887.info
58881.info
58882.info

how much i can sell them?

@Mahogany . The above is what I was talking about lol.

Before you register something, ask yourself why would you? If you can't answer it, don't buy. Wasting money.

 

[Mahogany]

@Mahogany . The above is what I was talking about lol.

Before you register something, ask yourself why would you? If you can't answer it, don't buy. Wasting money.

Will there be end users for the domains? --- No.
But will there be buyers for those? -- Yes.
Will he make profit? -- Yes.
Will the person buying be a speculator? -- Possibly.
Will it eventually end up in a Chinese persons account? -- Probably.
Can I explain their fascination with 8's or there reasons/methods for them laundering money? -- No.
Does it make sense? -- Not to us.


I assure you brother... He'll have no problem selling those 5n .infos domains with triple 8's.... Im no "expert" but I have had my hands in hundreds of numeric domains in all extension the last few months and assure you there is a buyer for this. We can debate the reasoning behind the potential buyers hypothetical purchase but there is no denying those 5n will sell.

 

[SirDrago]

I assure you brother... He'll have no problem selling those 5n .infos domains with triple 8's.... Im no "expert" but I have had my hands in hundreds of numeric domains in all extension the last few months and assure you there is a buyer for this. We can debate the reasoning behind the potential buyers hypothetical purchase but there is no denying those 5n will sell.

Indeed they will, 4 -5 months and he'll see roi.

 

[TravisS]

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I assure you brother... He'll have no problem selling those 5n .infos domains with triple 8's.... Im no "expert" but I have had my hands in hundreds of numeric domains in all extension the last few months and assure you there is a buyer for this. We can debate the reasoning behind the potential buyers hypothetical purchase but there is no denying those 5n will sell.

Where do you recommend selling them...or how? Outside of listing here.

 

[Mahogany]

Where do you recommend selling them...or how?

Again, I'm no domainer and offer no advice concerning sales platforms. However, I have personally sold over 150+ .info numerics via NP and can provide screenshots of PM's/PP receipts. I gauged a lot of prices via GD offers and it panned out that many of the offers were members here.

Today, I sold five premium 6n.infos for mid $XX via PM's. That amount may be minuscule or insignificant to many but it helps me with renewals.

 

[TravisS]

Again, I'm no domainer and offer no advice concerning sales platforms. However, I have personally sold over 150+ .info numerics via NP and can provide screenshots of PM's/PP receipts. I gauged a lot of prices via GD offers and it panned out that many of the offers were members here.

Today, I sold five premium 6n.infos for mid $XX via PM's. That amount may be minuscule or insignificant to many but it helps me with renewals.

We are on the exact same page here. From the sounds of it, you are the .info expert lol. So I will heed your advice. Are the buyers Chinese?

 

[Mahogany]

We are on the exact same page here. From the sounds of it, you are the .info expert lol. So I will heed your advice. Are the buyers Chinese?

Me.. Expert? No.. Far from it. I just have my data from personal sales and what I see on NP and GD... Rami, has told me time and time again..... Never buy what I cannot afford to lose.

75% of my buyers are resellers/speculators. 25% are foreign and unknown. I wish I had the patience to sit tight, hold my domains, wait for the bigger pay days, list on other sites and sell year(s) from now.... But I have monthly overhead from writers, hosting, renewals, etc that need to be covered so I try to move enough to cover those fees and continue buying keyword .infos for my personal hoarding. :P

My numerics have mostly been sold to resellers but most of my keyword infos were sold to end users, after developing sites on them.

 

[TravisS]

Me.. Expert? No.. Far from it. I just have my data from personal sales and what I see on NP and GD... Rami, has told me time and time again..... Never buy what I cannot afford to lose.

75% of my buyers are resellers/speculators. 25% are foreign and unknown. I wish I had the patience to sit tight, hold my domains, wait for the bigger pay days, list on other sites and sell year(s) from now.... But I have monthly overhead from writers, hosting, renewals, etc that need to be covered so I try to move enough to cover those fees and continue buying keyword .infos for my personal hoarding. :P

My numerics have mostly been sold to resellers but most of my keyword infos were sold to end users, after developing sites on them.

So would you agree to some degree, your .info buyers; let's say disregarding numeric.info's. Talking generally here. You sell to a relatively small group of resellers right? Only asking, because that's what I used to do. Now the question is, what do those resellers do with those names? I've registered, sold, etc., a lot of .info's. And I've seen .info's trickle back into the market over and over and over again. Not saying that's the case for all considered, but...it's a cycle that repeats for a name year and year (from what I've seen).