Sedo thinks .info may eclipse .net as the No 2 TLD

[gpmgroup]

From the August 2006 edition of their newsletter

With the .INFO picking up steam in registrations and also the volume of aftermarket sales skyrocketing, the future of the .INFO looks promising. So promising that the .INFO has the potential to bump the .net out of its position as second most popular TLD.

[Foodie]

This is great news and makes perfect sense. thanks.

[ParkQuick.com]

I like .info much better than .net - I agree with sedo.

[carlton]

.info has always been a logical, intuitive extension imo. You get it right off. .net will always be very well entrenched ... so not taking anything away from .net at all. But, there is room for .info to rise as a well-known and popular extension.

[Onward]

I like .net much more than .info...but I have better .info name, so I hope they are right...

They may just want to push domainers to make more Mid $xxx .info purchases.

[whitebark]

Certainly the long-running less than $2 per .info sales everywhere has contributed to the rise in their registrations. Would as many be registered if they were $6+?

Don't get me wrong - I like them too, have over a 100 now for a single project.

Either way, it's good to see.

[Rubber Duck]

Yes, I would guess that sedo are as on cue with this as they are with most else. Excuse me whilst I roll around the floor in agony.

[amcdonald]

Sounds Good, But I've heard lots of speculation over the years about all sorts of stuff. Speculation drives registrations, registrations feed speculation.

[James]

Certainly the long-running less than $2 per .info sales everywhere has contributed to the rise in their registrations. Would as many be registered if they were $6+?

Don't get me wrong - I like them too, have over a 100 now for a single project.

Either way, it's good to see.

True but I find myself renewing 100's at $6+

jim

[Duckinla]

Hmm, weren't .info's getting registered for like .69 cents? It's kind of like saying the hamburger will soon eclipse the Filet Mignon in popularity. Let's wait 12 months and see what the drop rate is for .info's vs. .nets.

[NavySeals91]

Very true duck, there will probably be 1000s dropped in May and then in June/July.

Well, off topic. IT's MY 1000th post!

[beatz]

That's just wishful thinking on sedo's side.

One reason for the "popularity" of .info for sure are the low prices which has result in massive registrations by domain people (not to mention the free .info registrations that come with a cno registration at many registrars).

Another might be that indeed quite a number of endusers especially here in germany have registered a .info for their main site but - wait a minute - just because the .de/.com was taken and .info names have low registration pricing most places.

Unfortunately this doesn't equal high .info aftermarket sales; it's rather like endusers might take a .info if it's really cheap, otherwise they won't.

Heck even here people pay only pennies for .info names so the "popularity" solely based on registration numbers means nothing really.

[gpmgroup]

Here is Sedo's reasoning - The full article

http://www.sedo.com/newsletter/us/nl_aug_2006.htm

[carlton]

Who knew that “info” was understood as the abbreviation for “information” in more than 35 languages?

No wonder. The internet is all about ... "information".

[QuantumBeam]

No wonder. The internet is all about ... "information".

indeed it is.....

[Leading Names]

I could see this happening.

I think it will take more like 10 years though, not 6.

- Rob

[Acro]

.info for generic domains? Sure. Otherwise, even the .info-hungry Germans prefer .net

[austinandrew]

There's an article in the September issue of Wired that suggests .info domains might be doomed because they are abused by sploggers. Details of the article are here:

.Info Article

[GT Web]

There's an article in the September issue of Wired that suggests .info domains might be doomed because they are abused by sploggers. Details of the article are here:

.Info Article

You can register .info names in bulk for $0.60 each. I wonder why the sploggers (great term, BTW, haven't heard it before) have jumped all of it instead of getting .coms for $7 each...

[PRED]

Hi,
One day .info may well be no.2. It is many years off though. The really cheap reg fees haven't helped the integrity either. Without doubt the general vibe is well on the up though. It is i think 37 countries that info means the same thing. That is incredible.
I have always thought it's a nonsense that certain .infos are worth less than country tlds. An example is in my country, England where area names.co.uk go for very often low thousands, but the counterpart .info can go for low hundreds or much less. This is for one reason, what the public type in. Sometimes even a small amount of marketing can change this. Just printing the new address on particulars & flyers, it sinks in.
If lots of companies follow suit which they are doing , it can snowball & awareness grows.Another example if you are a small company in England, why are you paying £1000 - £2000 for 3 letters.co.uk? you can have the .info for a fraction of that & frankly i think looks much better. Part of the problem is our customers are very much in the dark.
I wish i had lots of quality .infos. I only have about 5 .infos in my collection of hundreds of different domains.
That is the point i think. Quality generic .info's are just that. Forget the bad ones, people will let them drop. It's exactly the same comparison as .com's. For every good one, there's hundreds, if not thousands, average or bad ones
You can't bracket them off into one group. Cheers, Guy