.info domains

[Pred]

Hi folks,
interested on everyones thoughts on potential of .info domains. I must admit only have a few & they're not all that. Have thought for long time good ones are very undervalued. Don't think many type in the extension unprompted but once seen really memorable i think. I mean for places they must be the best in time. Everyone has different takes on whats worth this & that. I mean i know .com is always worth most for everything without any argument, logic etc. Shouldn't .info be the natural next best for a place I mean ,i know 'exampleplace' dot almost anything is worth money, but shouldn't it be the natural choice. And for many other genres. I've seen some largish sales on dnjournal for this tld. Nothing staggering though. Can't help feeling it's got a long way to go & some really good ones could be snapped up now & rise considerably in the future. My thoughts are that there are that many country tlds & growing all the bloody time. .info is a tld for a purist in some ways & is great for firms & advertisers to own.
What's everyone else's thoughts & do you own good ones? or bad ones!
I'm currently buying one through sedo at the moment & think i've got a great price as potential is huge. Cheers, Predator :mrgreen:

 

[BFTUK]

I agreed .info have potential, however i feel their potential has been damaged by mis-management and cheap prices.

When you can pick them up for $0.60, alot of people would sit on a potentially brandable name or 1000!

 

[Pred]

Hi BFTUK

Hi dude,
agreed. so many sites have literally given them away i think people resent paying for them! it's handy if you buy a .com from godaddy or something & they chuck in the .info. Problem comes on renewal. They all charge you for renewal & have little clauses. I think though a good generic or a domain you can develop is good with any extension. I mean i don't care what wa*k ones people have regged (i have a couple! :mrgreen: ). If you got say printers.info for a great price over another tld that would cost you a mint, & it's what you did , sell printers, then you're laughing. How well do search engines react to .info? Not sure as you don't see too many developed? Cheers, Predator :twisted:

 

[BFTUK]

How well do search engines react to .info? Not sure as you don't see too many developed? Cheers, Predator :twisted:

I agree a good generic one would be more than worth the reg fee, i think the problem with say england.info, france.info is that you'd always get the undeveloped parked ones (and alot of them) that would stop me typing in townxyz.info for example.

ref search engines, from my own experiments if your aiming at the UK market a .info is fine if you have it hosted on UK servers (which is much pricier than US hosting!)

 

[Pred]

Hi

Yes I do agree. The fact that lots of .infos are parked is not a problem for me. It's great that so many people just park & do nothing, particularly with the big names. It is sad & a waste in some ways. Just look at www.property.com or www.germany.com , wasters. What it means though is if property.com, .co.uk, .net etc are sitting there for 5 years past & 5 years in the future doing naff all, it leaves a huge window of opportunity for owner of property.info to develop. I know property.info would be worth absolute stacks in it's own right, but you know what i mean. I've noticed on dnjournal, past couple of sales sheets. .org's are flying high! a lot of poeople wrote them of completely! so you never know. i think developed good domains. just wasn't sure how search engines treated the ending as opposed to others. not really my area. cheers, Predator :twisted:

 

[wwwdomain.name]

On the money........ but be selective....

 

[revsorg]

I had a really good experience of .info's - I got 20 when they were giving them away free at domainsite, and have now annually renewed them all twice. One of them in particular got a shedload of traffic - hundreds of people a month. My experience is that real people use this domain extension, unlike some of the others like .ws which nobody ever types in.