Will you renew your free .info's?

[diverge]

Got my first 90-day notice of renewal at DomainSite for the 25 .infos I registered there last year. Hard to believe it has been 9 months since the free info bonanza.

(Of course, DomainSite wasn't the only registrar offering free .infos. I also got some from Dotster and eNom, but DomainSite was arguably the first.)

I'm probably going to keep about 25% of the .infos I registered last year for free. IMHO, the free .info land rush devalued .infos so much, the ones I have hardly seem like keeping, since the market price will barely cover renewal costs and time spent marketing, selling, and pushing the domains. But then again, I just bought a .info for my side business (see link in my sig) that I feel is a strong brand... so perhaps its all about end-user perception.

So, what about you all? How many of your free-25 will you be renewing? In anticipation of the coming renewal year, do you think the Afilias price reduction / .info free promotions will be the death of the .info TLD, or an ingenious marketing move?

[JMJ]

Already sold roughly 125 of the 200 I picked up. The others are mostly at 1and1 and noone wants to hassle with transferring them out

[mark]

the ones with click thru income since registration yes. the others no.

[stuff]

will renew some off them

[Anthony Ng]

I even let some of my PAID .info expired because of this free 25 promo. :(

[damitssam]

lol only good domains i got from the free 25 was gamehacks and onlinefreebies

[Banned: domaintalk]

I will suggest you to throw the bad ones or sell them with a renewal and the good ones renew those.

Same goes with me, will be getting a notice soon too.

[furca]

I used dotster and got mine fairly late.

I doubt I will renew any of the domains.

[seeker]

I will suggest you to throw the bad ones or sell them with a renewal and the good ones renew those.

isnt that true of ANY extension???

[ForumDomains]

I used dotster too and was bombarded with spam emails, so I don't think I'll renew any of them!

[tylerc]

I got 18 freebies - sold 1 of them for low$xx another for mid$xx
of the 16 left
a few earn enough to pay their renewal fee from adsense each month - most have at least earned their renewal fee plus a little extra

a few I picked up just to use for seo experiments and will let go.

I have a couple that, while they don't earn enough ppc income to support themselves, I will renew 'cause I'm convinced that they are worth holding onto for possible end-user sale.

A lot of the .info's that were regged for free will fall by the wayside (as they should), some good ones will be dropped - but I don't think that the market for GOOD .info's will be affected much.

[VisualDigits]

I won't renew any of mine, all I got was crappy domains anyways. However, when I was registering them I didn't know anything about domaining

[Adam Dicker]

If I didn't want them in the first place, I have no need for them now

-=DCG=-

[mystery250]

I didn't know anything about domains hardly back then, so I will not be keeping my domains.

I did not register that many of them though, 10-12.

[JMJ]

I have officially made $xx,xxx off of free .info's.

[lukeeales]

Well done, NameMogul. I have a few decent ones but I probably won't renew.

[mark]

I have officially made $xx,xxx off of free .info's.

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congrats !!!

[Anthony Ng]

I have officially made $xx,xxx off of free .info's.

Congratulations! But that also depends on how MANY .info domains have you registered and sold.

[Gerakus]

I won't renew any of mine, all I got was crappy domains anyways. However, when I was registering them I didn't know anything about domaining

Same here, heuheuheu =). I wouldnt renew them either, all mine sucks big time.

[DogFaceBoy]

Same with above poster, all of my free ones sucked.