.info

[ruan]

Why do you think that domains .info are lower priced than other domains as well as they aren't so popular...why this is happens any guesses?

 

[JoshHendo]

Well....
1. They are only lower priced for registration. When you want to renew them it will cost more.
2. Why get a .info when the .com, .net or .org is avaliable?
3. You will rpobably make more money out of a domain name if it is a .com

Some reasons why people would register them:

4. The name goes well with the extension
5. The .com, .net and .org are avaliable
(Those are the only 2 reasons I would register a .info, unless I was short on cash :P)

-Josh

 

[barefoottech]

Yes Ruan & Josh ,I don't have a clue why people Register .info's

Has me beat ,It can't be because at $2.99 or Less (in bulk way less) they are a Bargain.
Maybe because of their perceived lack of value , there is some quite good names still available.
Of course it could not be that you can make a very good income from parking them.
And of course no-one would ever sell them for amounts upto and beyond $xxxx.

Actually I don't know why I bothered buying all my almost 1200 .info's

 

[floatingworld]

if you are asking why .info is not so popular, look around and see the extensions that end users register...you will mainly see .com and ccTLD. Customers expect a company to (mainly) have these (with the occasional .net), so the demand for .info is lower and therefore the price lower. Some domainers are speculating that .biz and .info will be more accepted into the mainstream and thereby drive up prices, but at the moment this is primarily a bubble of resellers re upward price movement.

 

[tajimd]

.info doesnot sounds professional or it does not looks connecting with ur business. it is good if u use it for a educational in information giving site.

 

[bizing]

Hehe ... find a good info and you will sell it high $xxxx or maybe more.

Manhattan.info ... is it me or it got sold for a very good figure ?

Why wouldn't the info be a good one ?

If it were for you to go travel to Egypt wouldn't you like to see the info about Egypt first ? maybe Egypt.info ?

Rest my case

--alex

 

[monRa]

They are only lower priced for registration. When you want to renew them it will cost more

That sucks
Here is my post: I think that they are so cheap so make people buy more so make them more famous! But in my opinion .info domain names will have much more value in some time! Just think .info fits with everything: actor names, diseases, programs, tutorials expect of numbers in my opinions(although I got many NNNN.info!)!
Anyway we will see the future what will hapens!

 

[peter phillips]

You can use .info domains for a site providing information about you, your ideas or your organization. The .info domain is lower priced and not as popular as compared to a .com or a .net domain as people prefer to register .com or .net for commercial use.

 

[mole]

Why do you think that domains .info are lower priced than other domains as well as they aren't so popular...why this is happens any guesses?

.INFO isn't as popular as .COM, but the web is a huge place and .INFO will flourish in niches that ain't so obvious to the hillybilly until you bother to do a Google search using the term site:.info

 

[WhiteWebServices]

The main reason that .infos are cheaper is that not many surfers know about them. Some users assume all sites are .coms, others know about .orgs and .nets and some cc .tlds, but awareness of newer generic .tlds isn't yet that good. It will grow though.

 

[xtremest]

Year, info really can not generate type-in's, except, for sure, premiums. You have rto develop website and promote it.

 

[mole]

Not all .tlds are the same: .coms should be companies, .infos should be informative, and .bizs should sell snake oil and magic beans.

Where did you get that definition from, asia? The last time I checked, I thought I saw that "snake oil and magic beans" in one of the chapters from the book The Dotcom Bomb.

 

[WhiteWebServices]

Where did you get that definition from, asia? The last time I checked, I thought I saw that "snake oil and magic beans" in one of the chapters from the book The Dotcom Bomb.

That's just a slightly tongue-in-cheek sig, my own words. While .coms make me think of blue-chip multi-nationals, .bizs make me think of casinos, used car salesman, and con-artists. Of course, not everyone thinks the same way, but .bizs really aren't to my taste.

 

[Binfus]

Its so ironic that so many people here talk down about .info and .biz most commonly using the market status of .com to bolster their argument but then at the same time getting all hyped up about the newest of newer extensions like .be, .es, and God knows what ! My bet is that hardly any of the .info nay-sayers would have any truly prime .info name in their portfolio let alone .com simply because they were late to the party, just likem many of us were late for the first one in the mid-late 90's.

 

[Rasbelin]

Well, the price of .info domains will go up on the 1st January 2006, so I assume the new price will be the around the one of .com, .net, org and .biz. This is something that hasn't been announced in public in any large scale. I however got the information from an ICANN accredited registrar recently. This price increase might in the longer run make the .info domains look as worthy as eg. .biz, because it will lack a sense of cheapness, which has until now been the issue with the free .info campaign and the now relatively cheap reg fee for them with most registrars.

 

[budgetname]

The Internet is basically about sharing information and .info is the general information tld. Prices maybe comparatively low to .com but there is a high turnover. Prices will only increase as it becomes more popular.

On the other hand .com is a saturated namespace. When companies which are opposed to paying large sums of money for a domain, evaluate cost of establishing a site with these new extensions, the new extensions will increase in value.

 

[Binfus]

This price increase might in the longer run make the .info domains look as worthy as eg. .biz, because it will lack a sense of cheapness, which has until now been the issue with the free .info campaign and the now relatively cheap reg fee for them with most registrars.

Well some of us were into this .info thing already for a few years before this promotion started in 2004 and IMO by then there was not really much decent left to be had at reg fee...probably no different than it'd be now with yet newer extensions like .be/.es....all it takes is just a few hours or may be a few days for all the truly good names to be snapped up. It was quite different with .com since in the 90's it took a few years before people started recognizing the value of domains ...its a whole different ball game in this new millennium...people start months before a promising new TLD (like .EU, down the road .XXX) is even released with all the pre-regs and associated costs. This pre-release prep trend actually got started with .info, .biz and .us...and none of the premium names in these extensions costed (at least in my case)less than $100 (on an average) with pre-reg fees at multiple registrars and failed pre-regs... its all about what quality of names you're talking about since even in .com there are still infinite number of names available at reg fee...the real question is whether they're any good from aftermarket perspective?

 

[ruan]

...hmm..so it's still will cost some money even if I will be selling .info domain? right? but money that I will get paid are going to lower than usual .com domain right?

 

[Kate]

Why do you think that domains .info are lower priced than other domains as well as they aren't so popular...why this is happens any guesses?

The pricing also has to do with how much the respective registries charge registrars for the names in their TLD.

 

[barefoottech]

Its so ironic that so many people here talk down about .info and .biz most commonly using the market status of .com to bolster their argument but then at the same time getting all hyped up about the newest of newer extensions like .be, .es, and God knows what ! My bet is that hardly any of the .info nay-sayers would have any truly prime .info name in their portfolio let alone .com simply because they were late to the party, just likem many of us were late for the first one in the mid-late 90's.

BINGO ,I think you are spot-on.
I have seen people rubbish .info's ,yet nearly busted a gut to Register "Premium Names" in some pretty strange ccTLD's or even Subdomains, often paying ridiculous amounts .

If a .BE ,.ES , .BS or even a .cjb.net can be optimised and generate income, why is there so much angst about .info's.