BECOME AWARE! the .info BOOM is NEAR!

[whitebark]

I like developing .info domains. They make me money. I will buy more.

 

[domainah]

They might go up in value at the same rate as other extensions, but I don't think you're going to see an INFO "boom". INFO launched five and a half years ago - if it hasn't happened yet it's not gonna happen.

I agree 100%, in addition to that, right now people are spending money on .mobis which are going to meet the same fate as the .infos or worse IMO

 

[dcristo]

Perception is everything. All you need is one domainer with a premium .info portfolio wanting to get out of the industry. The big .info sales will put the extension on the radar, and things will go from there...

 

[Beachie]

Perception is everything. All you need is one domainer with a premium .info portfolio wanting to get out of the industry. The big .info sales will put the extension on the radar, and things will go from there...

But supply is only one half of the equation. I'm sure, right now, someone, somewhere wants to sell their premium .INFO for big $$$$$. Problem is, no-one is buying it.

 

[dcristo]

But supply is only one half of the equation.

I am referring to DEMAND for the extension. Is it safe to say the corporate world are trying to appear less commercial when trying to sell you something? What better way to do that then with a .info website. The current landscape for a successful site is .com no one knows any better, doesn't mean that can't change though. Plus 5 years isn't much for a new extension in the scheme of things.

 

[Beachie]

I am referring to DEMAND for the extension. Is it safe to say the corporate world are trying to appear less commercial when trying to sell you something? What better way to do that then with a .info website. The current landscape for a successful site is .com no one knows any better, doesn't mean that can't change though. Plus 5 years isn't much for a new extension in the scheme of things.

If that's true, someone out there will sell their premium .INFO to you right now for high $xx,xxx. Why aren't you buying it? You could make some serious money flipping it to these corporations you're talking about.

 

[dcristo]

If that's true, someone out there will sell their premium .INFO to you right now for high $xx,xxx. Why aren't you buying it?

I mainly only buy to develop.

 

[Beachie]

I mainly only buy to develop.

Yeah, but it's basically money for nothing. You buy it now and sell it to a corporation. They want .INFOs remember? This is the .INFO boom! Mortgage your house tomorrow.

 

[dcristo]

I am not necessarily saying it's a .INFO boom, just potential for the extension (moreso then other extensions besides .com obviously)

 

[Beachie]

I am not necessarily saying it's a .INFO boom, just potential for the extension (moreso then other extensions besides .com obviously)

Yes, but you said that if some player with a bunch of premium .INFOs decided to sell to an imaginary high-paying buyer it would put the extension on the map. My point is, there's a bunch of owners who would sell today if only the right offer came along - problem is, the offers aren't coming. Why? Because there's no demand.

 

[happy_martin]

My opinion with .infos is that they're too cheap ...

This means people get excited and buy up maybe 100 names at a time.

Suddenly 12 months on they realize they've not gotten around to monetizing them and rather than pay to renew them all they let them expire in bulk too.

 

[DomainMagnate]

I think the real premium .info names will always go up, like the newyork.info example, but the crappy names people register all the time now are worthless! And they will be worthless for some time. you still can buy .info's for about a buck at dotster, so it can't be worth much


~MG

 

[hunnam]

I have a friend who runs an Internet cafe that is always packed full of students etc

He prints off reports each week with sites viewed and searches, the main extension is .com but .co.uk isnt that far behind and a few .org sites but very rarely .info sites and the majority of searches are not just a name but also have the .com extension.

The biggest problem he has is people typing in a site name like ebay.co.uk.com and they keep saying "here the internet is broke".

Where I live there are quite a few people with the internet but in our local paper they said in a neighbouring area out of 300 homes only 70 had internet access.

Once people become used to the extensions through using the internet more, I think people will start using the range of them.

 

[DomainMagnate]

heh interesting.. so these uk.com domains should get some traffic

~MG

 

[HomerJ]

I have a suggestion for how to increase awareness and build good faith for .info.

Someone needs to start publishing a weekly sales chart for .info, the same way that DNJounal does, but exclusively for weekly .info sales. There are not enough .info's busting through the 4 figure range to hit the DNJournal chart, so it gets minimal coverage, .. but I'll bet there are a significant number of $xxx .info sales every week. .info just needs more *exposure* and this would be a great way to do it.

.info demand (and thus sales) is stagnant imo because proper treatment of .info as a legitimate subsector of the industry is stagnant to non-existent. people need a centralized place where they can go to follow .info trends, sales, news, analysis, etc. that monitors weekly progress.

The website/sales chart needs to be *very* professionally done, and not some rag-tag .info 'hype' site. This is a think big idea for someone with foresight and follow-through. I gaurantee you this will work. people need to *see* the sales. then more will start to sell, then valuations will start to rise. I'm so sure of this, if i did not already have enough projects on the plate already ..

 

[dcristo]

I have a suggestion for how to increase awareness and build good faith for .info.

Someone needs to start publishing a weekly sales chart for .info, the same way that DNJounal does, but exclusively for weekly .info sales. There are not enough .info's busting through the 4 figure range to hit the DNJournal chart, so it gets minimal coverage, .. but I'll bet there are a significant number of $xxx .info sales every week. .info just needs more *exposure* and this would be a great way to do it.

.info demand (and thus sales) is stagnant imo because proper treatment of .info as a legitimate subsector of the industry is stagnant to non-existent. people need a centralized place where they can go to follow .info trends, sales, news, analysis, etc. that monitors weekly progress.

The website/sales chart needs to be *very* professionally done, and not some rag-tag .info 'hype' site. This is a think big idea for someone with foresight and follow-through. I gaurantee you this will work. people need to *see* the sales. then more will start to sell, then valuations will start to rise. I'm so sure of this, if i did not already have enough projects on the plate already ..

Great idea. If your interested in partnering up with something like this hit me up.

 

[Varchar]

Just want to make one point. Most people who live in the NYC boroughs probably know or have heard about the website mta.info which is the NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority website. People go there for information such as maps or schedules. It's not a great website but good for its purpose. So I can say that people is aware of the .info extension. I am sure there are a lot of similar website out there. I have also seem corporations who built .info as their alternate website for information instead of .net. It is better than using subdomain.

I, myself, will start building up some of my .infos. We all should do the same. These are the names I am going to build the upcoming weeks:

RadioStations.info
Neighborhood.info
bugs.info
save.info

I think most of the good .infos are owned by people who is reading this thread. One of the most important factor before .info will take off is to put out more live web pages instead of parking pages there.

Kawing

 

[sunroof]

I just had my first .info sale, price was $2,000 to an end user, not a domainer. Before I proposed a price to the buyer, I reviewed the sales charts at DNJournal, and was surprised to see how many .info's were in $x,xxx range. These comps helped a lot in determining my sales price.

I also saw that many more .info's are selling in the $x,xxx's than .biz, although I'm starting to see more small businesses using .biz for their websites. I get the feeling that .info seems to project the image of a larger business or organization, while small businesses seem to be gravitating toward .biz.

 

[dcristo]

Just want to make one point. Most people who live in the NYC boroughs probably know or have heard about the website mta.info which is the NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority website. People go there for information such as maps or schedules. It's not a great website but good for its purpose. So I can say that people is aware of the .info extension. I am sure there are a lot of similar website out there.

You make a good point. .info is also used here in Australia for the train network (www.cityrail.info) and other such sites.

 

[Varchar]

Quote from Wiki: ".info has been the most successful of the seven new domain names, with over 4 million domain names registered up to March 2007. In addition, over 1.6 million .info websites are in active and dedicated use."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.info