Dot INFO burnout!

[mole]

We were talking about the 500,000 new .com's that were registered yesterday.

Oh, sorry. Yes, I don't register dotcoms.

 

[FreddyS]

good names are always good to keep under .info
for sure they will loose again a lot end of the year, but they will continue to grow again, slowly but .info will grow.

CU

Freddy

 

[Rubber Duck]

good names are always good to keep under .info
for sure they will loose again a lot end of the year, but they will continue to grow again, slowly but .info will grow.

CU

Freddy

All good domains will grow in value whatever the extension as global demand for domains will continue to grow rapidly over the next five years. Market will probably not mature until there are at least 200M registered, possibly a lot more.

The info. extension was obviously a sound development, but the decision to give them away was a marketing disaster, which has greatly impacted on their perceived value. Yes, eventually the shake out will pass and the registry will stabilize, but the registry would have grown more sustainably without the insane giveaway.

Best Regards
Dave Wrixon

 

[seeker]

I have to agree with Dave on this one.
It was a disaster to give them for free.
A nightmare is more like it.
however, especially in Europe, but all over the world eventualy, because of the acceptance of 'information' and the internet, this extension is bound to grow in value.
I do not think it will ever become a PPC income tld (never say never though)
info means information in so many languages, that, it will eventually IMO, become a true player.

 

[mole]

Medical.info sold for $25k recently, but the point still remains that the .info namespace allows you to buy up and control huge sets of keywords in a chosen category.

 

[Rubber Duck]

Medical.info sold for $25k recently, but the point still remains that the .info namespace allows you to buy up and control huge sets of keywords in a chosen category.

Yes, Mole. I agree with you on this one. My limited experience of Website development has told me that to get to the top of search engines, the most important bit of SEO you can do is to get your keywords into your URL. Even if you have no natural type-in search engine position will get you traffiic.

Most organisations when they set off got down the route of registering their company name as their URL, which is fine if you already have a famous brand. I believe that many if not most at some stage will migrate to more generic forms for their main URL. Clearly, the potential for registering names is almost infinite, but domains with keywords in important market sectors are very limited. Anything that is rare and is sort after appreciates in value.

The arguments extend into the IDN field, as the Chinese and Russians at least have been shown to search using Keywords in their own characters. Most of the pay per click advertising keywords are also in their own characters. Search engines will tie these up with domains sharing those characters. English translations just simply will not get a look in.

Best Regards
Dave Wrixon

 

[firemutt]

the only .info names that I will keep is my name my girlfiends name my online moniker and a few of my 3 letter dictionairy word ones but thats about it. all my other domains for dotinfo will go into the abyss

 

[DryHeat]

....all my other domains for dotinfo will go into the abyss

They then probably deserve just that....characters to the left of the dot actually are more important determinants of the fate of domains than the tld on the right...!! BuyMerchandise4Less.com versus Poker.MD (the latter just sold for $2K despite its tld)

 

[domaintalk]

Well here it goes:
.info would had a lot of demanding but the registrars did a big problem. They allowed free registrations for months or an year which was pretty sad because all the important keyword names were grabbed in seconds.
And after that they opened with 3-4 $ per year registrations which was again sad, the guys who had missed it had to register them and mostly all keywords were taken so there wasnt much hype.

Regards
VP

 

[namewaiter]

They then probably deserve just that....characters to the left of the dot actually are more important determinants of the fate of domains than the tld on the right...!! BuyMerchandise4Less.com versus Poker.MD (the latter just sold for $2K despite its tld)

but poker is a top 10 keyword right now, and it only went for $2K?

the .info would probably go for $20-30K

the .biz $10K

the .tv $20K (pretty good for a show/network)

the .net $100,000

& the .com $2,000,000+++

so i'd say what's to the right of the dot is probably just as important!