.info Why did .info fail?

[TWM]

Why did the .info TLD just fail? Its being offered for pocket change now. What went wrong? Is it even worth having .info if it can be registered for a buck or so?

What smart person came out with the .info TLD?

 

[monaco]

Who ever said it failed? Just because it's cheap now doesn't mean it's worthless. Wait until there are no more gTLD's...then .info will be more highly regarded as one of the more mature ones.

 

[CrazyTech]

I'd say with a couple sales in the $xx,xxx range .info is very far from failing. .info can be a very strong ext. if you have the right name. The main reason you're seeing the pocket changes sales right now comes as a byproduct of the free promotion last year. People who reg'ed their free domains are now trying to move them for some type of profit before they expire.

 

[seanmccann]

Once they offered them for free the value went down. I don't even look into the thread if somebody post a .info for sale.

 

[Stephen]

I don't believe that .info's have failed.

There have been some major .info sales out there.

It may be that the market for .info's is very slow, but I do not think that the .info extension is failing, or is going to fail...

Let's give them a year or so and see what happens.

 

[CrazyTech]

Failure?

Best.info - $20,880
Musical.info - $13,936
Maschinenbau.info - $7,772
Broker.info - $5,000

Thanks DNJournal.

 

[vimkar]

Failure?

Best.info - $20,880
Musical.info - $13,936
Maschinenbau.info - $7,772
Broker.info - $5,000

Thanks DNJournal.

i wish i had some Failures like that :hehe: :hehe:

 

[quality]

It has failed !!!! maybe 50 big sales over $1,000 and over 2 million regs (most
of them, 4 free!)....that's a 1 in 40,000 regs doing anything useful....Basically
traffic volumes are very low on .info names and the vast majority of the
sites get virtually no visitors at all....just check them out on sedo to see
how many visitors even "good" .info's get!

Champagne.info 9 visits a month!!
stockbrokers.info 3 visits a month
barristers.info 1 visit a month!

 

[TopSatelliteRadio.co]

They are still great for SEO work. I know a guy who bought 500 .info domains that are keyword rich from registerfly for $1.25 each!

Granted, they are throw away domains after a month or 3 of pumping and dumping, but if you can make 100$/month per domain, thats $5,000 right off the bat!

Just a though,
Scott Fish

 

[quality]

$100 time 500 is $50,000.... and where does the $100 per .info
income come from.....?????? Please post reasoned analysis rather than
this kind of low level nonesense........

 

[barefoottech]

.INFO Has Failed ,they are Fighting Words
I own 70 .infos and Plan to buy more
I have .info's with excellent traffic

Once they offered them for free the value went down. I don't even look into the thread if somebody post a .info for sale.

Great, means I get them for 15NP$


Throw a Small site on them and make money ,how much
Got a .info 2 weeks ago and I have made over $100 USD in Revenue already
So failed ,No way
What has failed is non Visionary people like yourself ,who can not see the Woods for the trees.
.com is NOT the only tld making money.
Limiting yourself to only .com is cutting your potential income stream in half or more
as far as Keyword search goes ,these days Google,Yahoo is just as likely to Index a .info at top ranking as a .com
If .info's were not relevant Google Wouldn't even consider a Pr1 for them
I have More PR3 .info's than PR3 .com's

Planning to buy several .tld's in the Next year
.com is very low on the list
.info is TOP
Do not look at the .info price and say trash
look at the Price and Say BARGAIN
Several .infos I purchased for $15 USD ,before my Registrar dropped the Price in March, have still paid for themselves.

$100 time 500 is $50,000.... and where does the $100 per .info
income come from.....?????? Please post reasoned analysis rather than
this kind of low level nonesense........

This from someone with Web.com Domains !!! :?

 

[FusunMedia]

I'd gladly take any failed 3 letter .info off your hands.

 

[webmark]

.....why have .web.coms failed???

 

[TopSatelliteRadio.co]

$100 time 500 is $50,000.... and where does the $100 per .info
income come from.....?????? Please post reasoned analysis rather than
this kind of low level nonesense........

Oops on the math, never was good at that.

Ok, ready for my "reasoned analysis" ?

If you can use adsense on those domains and have them hosted on your own server, which this guy does have, then you can bring in plenty of revenue.
Here is a link to what I'm talking about. http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=267
And I happen to know this guy makes quite a lot of money through BH SEO adsense strategies.
Hows that for a low level of nonsense, sounds like you should do some rethinking before you bash ideas.

 

[RJ]

I really believe the .INFO strategy has long term vision. Since it's barely been a year since the registry started their promotional registration rate pricing, it's far too early to declare .INFO a failure.

Ignore the sales for a moment. You can hardly get an accurate picture of a TLD's success from looking at a few dozen reported sales every week.

Now consider this. Dot INFO has over 10 million pages indexed in Google. Dot WS and dot CC have both been around a lot longer trying to establish themselves as .COM alternatives and together have only a third that number of results. Dot BIZ was opened at the same time as INFO and is sitting at 3.6 million.

To me that says the INFO tld is being developed and used by a lot of webmasters. This is bound to lead to increased recognition of the extension by the general public, which will ultimately make dot INFO a success.

 

[TWM]

Well, by saying failed, I was refering to the low reg fees. To me, I dont see how they make money!

 

[slaughterbeck]

I really believe the .INFO strategy has long term vision. Since it's barely been a year since the registry started their promotional registration rate pricing, it's far too early to declare .INFO a failure.

Ignore the sales for a moment. You can hardly get an accurate picture of a TLD's success from looking at a few dozen reported sales every week.

Now consider this. Dot INFO has over 10 million pages indexed in Google. Dot WS and dot CC have both been around a lot longer trying to establish themselves as .COM alternatives and together have only a third that number of results. Dot BIZ was opened at the same time as INFO and is sitting at 3.6 million.

To me that says the INFO tld is being developed and used by a lot of webmasters. This is bound to lead to increased recognition of the extension by the general public, which will ultimately make dot INFO a success.

Wow, all that insight and on your birthday no less.


P.S. Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday Mr. James, happy birthday to you… :wave:

 

[DSL]

The .info extension has not failed. My uncle uses it for a business site and I have seen it advertised here even at my local dentist.

 

[-db-]

Great post by RJ. Took the words right out of my mouth.

.INFO is very popular in some countries, and less popular in others, but I would certainly never consider it a failure. Look where/when it started, and look where it is now. It's begun to carve out it's own niche, and will continue to do so. It's still young, and has a ways to go, but I think it's a bright future.

Sure, there are a lot of junk names because of the free/cheap registrations, but that's to be expected. The reason there are so many junk names as a result of the promotion, is because most of the good ones were already taken.

This from someone with Web.com Domains !!! :?

Talk about failure. Those names are worth less than the keyboard I'm typing on.

(no offense intended towards web.com owners)

 

[slaughterbeck]

The reason there are so many junk names as a result of the promotion, is because most of the good ones were already taken.

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

 

[MissFlora]

Earlier this year, I wrote an article about a big company using .info instead of .com for their site and they even have it published in well-know science magazine called "Discover". What makes you think that this is a failed tld if people are willing to invest so much for it? As long as you get the right word for .info, you're all ready for some $x,xxx sales.

Flora.

 

[RJ]

Well, by saying failed, I was refering to the low reg fees. To me, I dont see how they make money!

Renewals are full price.

 

[equity78]

This from someone with Web.com Domains !!!

QUOTE OF THE WEEK NICE ONE agree 100 % with your entire post and then RJ put it all together perfectly.




Happy Birthday RJ

I know Badger feels like it failed with a xx,xxx sale on A free .info. IAN YOU are a failure.

 

[TWM]

Ok, so cheap reg fees, full price renewals... But still, if they are SOOO popular, why dont they put the reg fees higher... normal.

 

[equity78]

WHAT IS NORMAL? we don't all pay the same price for anything here. I can get .nets at Fabulous for $4.75 is that normal?