.info about to break 3 million

[gpmgroup]

I think it is the large block of promotional domains registered around the end of Ocotober 2004 which have been returned by NameScout and others.

 

[JMJ]

No these are new registrations. Apparently the big drop is from a registrar who allowed more than 25 each per reg-c so I know what happened there.

 

[gpmgroup]

Sorry thought you were refering to the the recent 30000 deletions

There were 33,000 or so new ones one day last week as well so somebody must be very keen on .info's

 

[Anthony Ng]

I think it is the large block of promotional domains registered around the end of Ocotober 2004 which have been returned by NameScout and others.

Those ID thieves at NameScout/Domainsatcost.ca have NOT yet released the .info registered under my contacts (done back in late Oct 04): still in RGP (pending delete - restorable) now.

 

[Rubber Duck]

Even with the huge drop tomorrow they will stay above 3 million. I wonder what happened to cause 39,280 in one day and this 6 days after the promo ended.

Those domains have been added not deleted, but it will just be the accountants catching up with the Christmas backlog. The only way is down, but initially just expect to see new registration dry up. What moron would buy this week, when last week he could have had all he wanted for free.

Regards
Dave Wrixon

 

[seeker]

some morons have the names backordered.

thanks...

 

[JuniperPark]

<-- moron.

Oh, and I've got another $2,000 .info sale in escrow, from another "moron". Does this answer your question about the morons?

 

[seeker]

not to mention my soon to make headlines .info sale (lol )

I guess there are many morons like us here...

 

[gpmgroup]

Those ID thieves at NameScout/Domainsatcost.ca have NOT yet released the .info registered under my contacts (done back in late Oct 04): still in RGP (pending delete - restorable) now.

Drops help the thought process for drop catchers. Lateral thinking is often difficult, without a little assistance.

 

[smile]

just prepare for huge drops...

 

[Theo]

about to break the 16Million pages indexed by Google too
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:.info

Interesting function!

Look how it
can be used to spam Google The .eu is non existant.

 

[Rubber Duck]

<-- moron.

Oh, and I've got another $2,000 .info sale in escrow, from another "moron". Does this answer your question about the morons?

My reference to morons applies only to those who waited for the first few days of the new year after the very generous .info offer expired. If you were in that class, which I doubt then the description still applies!

Besides, I have sold dot CN for more than that!

Regards
Dave Wrixon

not to mention my soon to make headlines .info sale (lol )

I guess there are many morons like us here...

The real questions are:

Are any dot info worth anything?

Has the giving away of dot info done anything to increase the credibility of the extension?

The answer to the first is that any of the first million extension registered that had a reall marketing messsage will have a value.

The answer to the second is definitely not. Most of those additional two million domains will not renew and will create an overhang in the market which will in the medium term significantly damage the value of existing dot info domains.

Getting back to my original premise that anyone who waited for the offer to close before registering their highly valuable dot infos is a moron, then I stick with that opinion!

Regards
Dave Wrixon

 

[Ed30]

Getting back to my original premise that anyone who waited for the offer to close before registering their highly valuable dot infos is a moron, then I stick with that opinion!

Regards
Dave Wrixon

The idea that you can wait a few days to register what could be considered a valuable dropping domain in any extension isn't going to work.

 

[Rubber Duck]

The idea that you can wait a few days to register what could be considered a valuable dropping domain in any extension isn't going to work.

Fair comment, but drops aren't free anyway and it is difficult to see how the ballooning of dot info registrations has much to do with drops!

Regards
Dave Wrixon

 

[gpmgroup]

hmmm another 178,389 .info regs today nearly caught .org now!

 

[Anthony Ng]

I could understand giving away 6 months of free hosting or even free cellphones for air time, but giving away like 3 years of lease on a new car in hope of more leases AFTER THAT?

 

[JMJ]

Whats occurring here is only natural if you really think about it. I foresee .biz registrations rapidly increasing aswell just because of the simple fact that it's the next step. Mabey not as fast as .info due to their giveaway but it will happen. The internet is beginning to prove itself as a sound investment. Still to this day people don't understand how I can make money online let alone registering a domain name and parking it to make money.

Every time someone asks me what I do and I tell them they always have an idea for a website. They typically ask me how much it would cost them to do it and after I tell them they get all excited when they find out they can afford to do it. My mom as a matter of fact was over the other day and asked me to register her another domain for another idea..lol As far as the investment end of things. My brother-in-law is a financial analyst and we were talking over the holidays about the things I had in the works. He watches stocks and advises people all day on how to make 12% or whatever a year off their money and still doesn't comprehend how the internet is evolving and how I'm making money from it (and a much higher return I might add)...

Sure there are going to be new extensions released in the future. .com will always be .com but I think you will see those registration numbers decrease in the future. Again it has to do with the fact that people are clueless to the fact they have alternatives. Once public awareness increases so does the demand for that alternative.

.net reg numbers will also decrease in fact it's the last extension on my list when I go to registering. I can count on two hands the number of .nets I've registered over the years and one finger the number I've sold and the rest have or will probably expire.

.org We all know it has a limited audience although it beats .net on my list.

.info has use around the world.

.biz has use around the world.

.us .de .ca etc limited use the world is much bigger.

BTW: Mom's new domain is a "keyword".biz instead of blahblah"keyword.com. My newest client is "keyword".info over blah"keyword".com

 

[Anthony Ng]

Again it has to do with the fact that people are clueless to the fact they have alternatives. Once public awareness increases so does the demand for that alternative.

Exactly. Now anybody and his mother-in-law AND her dog know about "dot com"; however, many are still clueless re: .net and .org, not to say .biz or .info. (Some people still think any website must start with "www" and end in ".com"; so when you tell them that your domain is e.g. dnforum.net, they will simple make it "www.dnforum.net.com"!)

It takes years ... and we are far from there now.

 

[JMJ]

I'm not knocking type-in traffic at all but there are different kinds of that traffic. You have your true type-in and then you have a search type-in. When I use to go over my dads house and get on their computers I would see where they would type-in certain things they were looking for ie: "keyword"<space>restaurant.com and alot of times the .com would have a space before it or no .com at all. So what happens here? They get a search result. If another site has better content than yours and a better positioning and you happen to own that searchtype-in.com who do you think will get clicked first?

Search engines don't care about extension they care about content. And I'm not sure about you but I receive a much higher percentage of SE traffic than type-in but then again I don't have the big bucks it takes to invest in a four year return.

 

[Rubber Duck]

hmmm another 178,389 .info regs today nearly caught .org now!

As I said it the accounts catching up for the Christmas Period. Total revenue for period Zilch!

Regards
Dave Wrixon