closed Thoughts on .Info's

[cbdomains]

Whaat are your thoughts on this ext .info

 

[greggish]

I'm not sure how well they'll do. I registered one .info and I'm not sure if I'll be renewing it... schoolwork.info

 

[DomeBase]

Originally posted by cbdomains
Whaat are your thoughts on this ext .info

well... start up had problems... but they are being registered, are selling, and beginning to be used more... if you are interested, more info on .INFO at my site... including links to sales info...

http://www.DomeBase.com

For my two cents, .INFO and .US will do OK among the new extensions... Of course, .COM-only folks disagree

 

[DomainPairs]

I registered one info as an information site (I try to be different). I now think I might have been better off with a hyphenated .com.

 

[DrWho]

I believe the best .INFO names have been scooped up with only scraps left for the rest of us to develop into productive sites.

 

[com]

Anyone want to grab WESTWING.INFO?

How about deltawing.info?

 

[.com.net.org]

I like .INFO as it's gTLD and .INFO is very well know word even for non-English.

I see there's a chance that this TLD can be more popular when Afilias begin to do 1 year initial registration.

For domainers, I see there's no point NOT to pay 1 year more upfront and choose good names.

The downside for this TLD is it's 4 letters.
As many still use 2 to 3 chars EREGI to do email validation, then .INFO email can't be used for that site.

Even everyone.net do not allow .INFO.
Don't know whether they've fixed that.

 

[mole]

.info is great for descriptive keywords and lends an instant sense of authority to those keywords. But most of the best names have all gone by now

 

[com]

Here is one thats not too bad, still available for registration: FilmDeveloping.info

 

[wwww]

Originally posted by Point8T
Here is one thats not too bad, still available for registration: FilmDeveloping.info

I prefer my wwww.info

 

[CoolHost.com]

"The downside for this TLD is it's 4 letters."

True.
But IF you're going to register an ".INFO", be sure to protect your investment! Please e-mail me if you need any further explanation ... I've covered the topic extensively here in this section!
Good Luck.

 

[interbuy]

Not much different than what happened with .com. Those that registered the very best names in LR1 and LR2 have made out extremely well with .info. I presume the same will be eventually said about .us.

There have been a fairly large number of sales in the $3,000-$7,000 range, mostly to Europeans, who view dot info as a top name.

They run the gambit from casino names to medical terms to generic one word type-in mames, even adult names.

For some European companies dot info is preferable to dot com because it has no American association.

I know of a member on this board that has sold in excess of $50,000.00 US worth of .info domain names in the last six months.

They choose not speak of it, but I know because I have purchased from them myself and they used their prior sales to help justify the cost of the domain I was acquiring.

As for development they are excellent because of the name retention value.

I did some market research recently with twelve people, where I told the group ten names, all similar in difficulty. An example would be dog.com, cat.net, bird.info,horse.org and fish.biz etc....

These people were paid for their time. They were all intermittent, casual users of the internet.

After half an hour break, I asked them to match each name with its extension as I read out the name and write it down.

The .info name was written down correctly by 10 out of 12 people. The next best was .com at 8 out of 12.

The dot info was logical, intuitive and stayed in their mind.

Try the test yourself with friends or associates, you will be surprised by the results.

I did start the test off by explaining that we were going to be discussing internet addresses and told them the extensions we were going to discuss.

I of course know dot com is the top domain, and the best investment if you can afford to get the name you want.

I am only suggesting that for the top 1000 type-in keywords in dot info you can do very well right now in the resale market and dot info lends itself well for development websites at a reasonable cost.

I invest in both, sorry for the long post.

interbuy

 

[gkleinman]

For my money, I stick 100% in the .com space. I know others have made out well with .net .org even some .tv but for me I still think the majority of people think of things in .com terms

 

[CoolHost.com]

"For my money, I stick 100% in the .com space. I know others have made out well with .net .org even some .tv but for me I still think the majority of people think of things in .com terms"

Well said!

BUMP.

Good Luck.

 

[DomeBase]

Originally posted by interbuy
Not much different than what happened with .com. Those that registered the very best names in LR1 and LR2 have made out extremely well with .info. I presume the same will be eventually said about .us.

There have been a fairly large number of sales in the $3,000-$7,000 range, mostly to Europeans, who view dot info as a top name.

They run the gambit from casino names to medical terms to generic one word type-in mames, even adult names.

For some European companies dot info is preferable to dot com because it has no American association.

I know of a member on this board that has sold in excess of $50,000.00 US worth of .info domain names in the last six months.

They choose not speak of it, but I know because I have purchased from them myself and they used their prior sales to help justify the cost of the domain I was acquiring.

As for development they are excellent because of the name retention value.

I did some market research recently with twelve people, where I told the group ten names, all similar in difficulty. An example would be dog.com, cat.net, bird.info,horse.org and fish.biz etc....

These people were paid for their time. They were all intermittent, casual users of the internet.

After half an hour break, I asked them to match each name with its extension as I read out the name and write it down.

The .info name was written down correctly by 10 out of 12 people. The next best was .com at 8 out of 12.

The dot info was logical, intuitive and stayed in their mind.

Try the test yourself with friends or associates, you will be surprised by the results.

I did start the test off by explaining that we were going to be discussing internet addresses and told them the extensions we were going to discuss.

I of course know dot com is the top domain, and the best investment if you can afford to get the name you want.

I am only suggesting that for the top 1000 type-in keywords in dot info you can do very well right now in the resale market and dot info lends itself well for development websites at a reasonable cost.

I invest in both, sorry for the long post.

interbuy

Thanks for the post. Useful.

 

[Tee]

.Info is a good one. .Us too.

 

[Tee]

It makes sense that .info would be so recallable. It really is, it works with most words - without advertising, without branding.

Imagine if .info were advertisied even a twentieth of what .com was? (I can just imagine all the imagine wisecracks)

 

[Tee]

To be honest though I'm not seeing many typeins from info names. But then again, maybe my names are poor quality or not very highly searched. I've seen typeins from .us names, but not many from info. I've seen none from .biz.

It seems to me that there should be more " typein" representation from overture for the new extensions.

Sex.info currently gives no suggestions (gave 26 once i believe)
Sex.biz gives 51 (Been in the news not to long ago)
Sex.us gives 50

So, from that you can gather that typeins are probably very, very low.

.Info really should have more numbers there - afilias was supposed to really advertise it.

I think though that info will find its strong niche because of what it brings to the table - relevant recallability.

.Us I think will develop nicely. Its the united states extension after all. Its like the official .com.

.Com is already doing/done very well so we dont even have to go there.

 

[ondrik]

.info extension the only acceptable extension that was ever introduced for regional and health sites. No com's make sense as a platform for non-commercial information sites.

I registered ALL .info-extented city and region names in my country, leaving .com available for the .info resistable users of this forum. In my native language .com means N.O.T.H.I.N.G. and .info is just fine as my country code domain.

I am sure this is the case with most European countries.

regards

http://www.strasbourg.info/
http://www.corse.info/
http://european-union.info/


and others please find at:
http://www.selldomain.info/

 

[mole]

Originally posted by Tee
To be honest though I'm not seeing many typeins from info names. But then again, maybe my names are poor quality or not very highly searched. I've seen typeins from .us names, but not many from info. I've seen none from .biz

Can we all agree that random type-ins are NOIT the way of the future, tee? Never forget that a domain name is your site name, and represents what you stand for. Search engines are the way of the future, not curious type-ins.