why .info is better than .net

[Provider]

predator, how can you say that .info is more valuable if you can buy .info for cheaper? There are no cheap sales for geo .net , but there are cheap sale for geo .info. There is no logic here I think.


re: You mean the sales tag? Ignore that as you would an overpriced item in a store that hasn't been updated for a few years. If you can read it under the dust.

you can say exactly the same about .com names, it doesn't represent reality though. If all geo .net and .info domain names registered only sales can represent the value. I see .info sales much lower than for .net

 

[PRED]

Hi Provider,
Firstly let me start by saying you have some very nice names.k:
Someone earlier made a valid point about what we see is different to what the enduser sees. True. But we have a large knowledge base on this subject. The public have very little. They'll gain more in this as time goes on.
Like anything, particularly with domain names, not everything happens overnight. I feel like a race is being run in very, very slow motion. .com will always finish in top spot. However .net may be officially number 2 for 'most' categories, but many are becoming disenfranchised & although the .net originally was for registrars, hosting etc (i know it can be used for anything). The .info i feel is coming round the bend in slow motion behind it. All the time people are waking up to the fact this domian is a top level domain with no official boundaries or no practical boundaries. It means the same thing in 37 languages at least! Think outside the box. Many other countries like this extension too. It's a big world out there!
what i mean is, people can ask what they like for places.net, i don't want them for many reasons. i consider there are many opportunities to be had at the moment with certain extensions. .info being one of them.
i don't expect to make a fortune overnight, but have some exciting .infos at the moment & it is an area i want to expand in. I expect in the coming few years exponential growth. These are my views. Others share them too. People are entitled to have their own opinions though & move in any area of domaining they wish.
I also don't like to just sit on domains either. I believe you should always try & develop your best. I know we all have too many, but just developing a few of the best, benefits everyone!
I do agree with something you said on another thread though, particularly with .info domains, you should try & develop. They will still have their value, but i think you can add a lot by development. It will also help raise their profile. How can we moan at the public if all they see is parked pages?
Cheers, Predator

 

[TheLegendaryJP]

I agree with Predator 100%, being a premium name guy myself, I have started looking into .info

The info has nearly no boundaries, the net while holding a higher acronym value falls behind the info imo for use. The obvious tech uses and communications applications that work for the net disappear when it comes to generic keywords...again imo. Where the dot net fails the info prevails while also doing so for the words/use the dot net has.

My bet is on info over net, but as most know my acronym heart is still with the net

 

[Jacksplat]

I don't want to encourage everyone to buy .info basically because I'm still trying to buy all I can still while they're still available at a decent price. But I can't pass by your thread Mike without giving my vote for .info being the best choice for anything geographical .info

Montreal .info versus Montreal .net ? Easily the info, it even looks better and tells the surfer what to expect before they get there. I've recently paid xxxx for .info names and still buying.

Good luck to all.

Jack.

 

[Provider]

I guess we are talking here about potential more than a real story.
Interesteing situation here, you think that .info is more valuable but
it costs much less than .net. I think at this point .info is valuable only to us - domainers.

 

[DryHeat]

One of the important factors in perception of values is the trajectory two extensions have had in last few years; IMO, .info has seen much more "action" so to speak relative to .net during these recent years. Whereas the perception of .net is of an old bloke that has lagged behind its peers (.com, .de, .co.uk, etc), .info is perceived as a rissing star that has fared very well among the newer extensions. Another factor that contributes to the perception of "proper fit" and perceived value is that .net was originally intended for "network" type usage (in other words it was meant to be a somewhat "retricted" TLD) and only got started being used otherwise due to lack of good alternatives at the time. On the other hand, .info was officially introduced and has been always promoted as the most unrestricted and generic tld. The more general public sees and becomes familiar with .info, the more it is becoming an intuitive choice for all "informational" usage and that just happens to be the crux of the Internet itself.

 

[buy.name]

I think it's the sooner or later problem that "geo" .infos will finally be more valuable than their corresponding .nets,
I have seen a lot of countries and cities using .info domains as their official (also unofficial) website domains, for example: Salzburg.info, Amsterdam.info, Spain.info.... blah,blah...
when I type "Amsterdam" or "Salzburg" in google, the first results are both there corresponding .infos.
You can also see "Salzburg.net" is not really in used, and Amsterdam.net looks not good as "Amsterdam.info".

I think the value for geo domains is about equal to the posibilities of usages,
geo websites are all informational, just as other members mentioned above, .info fits them pretty well....

I have been purchasing .info domains for years, I noticed that the value of .info is growing faster than .net in past 4~5 years, I can easily purcahse something like Taipei.info at about $1k in 2~3 years before, but for now none of owners of such international city names would let them go for less than $2k I think....

 

[Rockefeller]

I thought it was a good time to give this thread a bump. It seems that .net and .info geo domain names have taken off in the past 6 months. Has anyone changed their views?

 

[Theo]

Has anyone changed their views?

Nope. I still despise .mobi

 

[Bill Roy]

Both .net and .info geo domains are good, and let it be said clearly that there is room for both in the market!

Remember that even when the .com is taken into account that only means that there is three brands in the market place. Do we turn around and say there should only be two car manufacturers? Or only two supermarket chains? Or only two accountants? Or even only two domain registrars? No of course we do not, the fact that all suffixes can be utilized shows that we are dealing with a maturing market.

 

[Provider]

.net is definetely much better than .info at this point. Take any domain on the market, .net has higher asking price, people know about this extension, .net domain
will have much bigger chance to have type-in traffic, a lot more sales and respect from
the development public and domainers. People that believe in .info they are usually people that entered domain name game later, and don't have large budgets to buy better extensions.
There are people that think that .info GEO domains cost more than GEO .net domains. I
own many GEO names, and the truth is that .org worth a lot more that GEO .info name, and
it is impossible to compare .net GEO to .info, they are like 10 to 1. Most of the people glorify
on the forum .info only because they can't afford to buy other extensions.

 

[Bill Roy]

Does it actually make any difference whether .net or .info? No.

One may get more type in's than the other, but put a site up and if necessary market it correctly and it makes not a jot of difference, the better site will outway the poorer site very quickly.

 

[Luke]

Mind that .info has one more letter to type in ;-)

 

[dcristo]

My crystal ball tells me .info will become a stronger extension then .net

 

[HomerJ]

i could very well see geo .info domains getting a lot of type-in traffic in a few years as the extension becomes more widely recognized. if people start to mentally connect .info's w/ informational websites, they might start to direct type-in for example montreal.info instead of montreal.com. just a thought

 

[rajeevabc]

with so many different angles to the .info ext, it has to be agreed that the ext is strongest in case of purely informational sites, a typical case being place.info, tourism.info, etc. Now, how relevant is the .info name for a forum website, when none of the other exts are available? IMO the best ext for a forum site is the .org followed by the .net, .info and then .com. please input your ideas pros.

 

[DomainBuyerBroker]

Not a fan of .net and never was. If I see a .net domain it just means "I couldn't get the .com". If I see a developed .info site it's obvious that the owner couldn't get the .com but chose to develop the .info.

I even traded a .net away so I could get the same domain .tv. Maybe I'm crazy but I'm willing to trade away all my .nets for something else.

Most .net domains are WAY overpriced and I don't see many developed .nets. So, going forward I see the .nets rotting on the shelf as undeveloped properties while people buy and develop .info.

 

[MikeK]

Each has it's use.
If someone is going to develop a site for the soul purp. of giving info on the given url name, or a subject, a .info would be in place here.

 

[PRED]

Not a fan of .net and never was. If I see a .net domain it just means "I couldn't get the .com". If I see a developed .info site it's obvious that the owner couldn't get the .com but chose to develop the .info.

I even traded a .net away so I could get the same domain .tv. Maybe I'm crazy but I'm willing to trade away all my .nets for something else.

Most .net domains are WAY overpriced and I don't see many developed .nets. So, going forward I see the .nets rotting on the shelf as undeveloped properties while people buy and develop .info.

I agree

 

[Jernet]

I like .info, but I think .net is still far better. I have had many generic .nets that got a lot of traffic, mostly type-ins. I got nice traffic to .nets that the .com was developed also. I think people accidentally type in .net for whatever reason. I don't know of anyone who would ever type in .info except if it was on purpose ;0)