.info about to break 3 million

[JMJ]

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

Regards
Dave Wrixon

.info as are any registrations are instantaneous. When registered they are immediatly logged just like any other domain. Whois.sc checks these stats daily and checks them against the day before. Unless those domans were never actually registered there's no way they could be backlogs and if they were they are being paid for by someone now.

 

[Rubber Duck]

.info as are any registrations are instantaneous. When registered they are immediatly logged just like any other domain. Whois.sc checks these stats daily and checks them against the day before. Unless those domans were never actually registered there's no way they could be backlogs and if they were they are being paid for by someone now.

If you seriously believe that they sold 178,000 dot info yesterday to paying customer's please send me a bottle of whatever it is your on! In fact, I'll pack in the domains and start selling the houch. It must be bloody powerful stuff!

Regards
Dave Wrixon

 

[JMJ]

Do you have a logical explanation other than backlog? It doesn't fly for me. Just got through reading Duke's article and you might want to read it yourself considering others are saying exactly what I'm saying in this thread.

 

[mole]

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

It has taken years, and it will continue to take years :-D depending on whether you are relying on type-in traffic from apes or internet savvy broad-band enabled white collar professionals.

My statlogs are starting to show an increasing amount of type-in .INFO probes, I always attribute that to some bludy speculator sniffing out the URL.

I'm with Brinkle that search IS NOW the key point-of-first-contact with a website. Wake up and smell the flowers on where Google has taken search. Whether you get repeat traffic, eg. like whois.sc, is entirely up to what you have to offer people after that first encounter, eg. dnforum.com.

Whatever it is, you don't need a .COM although it can help recall, just a good and relevant name that people can remember you by.

 

[Leading Names]

Well, it’s official, .info has officially overtaken .org in terms of total registrations (for now at least)

.INFO 3,343,740 992,283 1,274 81,726 756 1,868

- Rob

 

[Anthony Ng]

Yes, I agree that Google (search) is the next best thing, but searches from ignorant folks is dying down. I don't have hard data at hand, but you could make an educated guess that with more and more people using the Internet, those who simply type in a) a domain (e.g. "dnforum.com") in the search box of MSN or b) a word string in the browser address bar will learn the trick sooner or later. Remember people used to click on banners that say "you've got mail"? Who on earth would click on Yun Ye's search page on the 5th time? BRANDING is so important for businesses that few dare to use even .biz, and it's really annoying when people keep going to your competitor who register the .com counterpart. Even for non-profit, personal projects, more and more are converted to .com. Again, just some quick thoughts.

 

[mole]

BRANDING is so important for businesses that few dare to use even .biz, and it's really annoying when people keep going to your competitor who register the .com counterpart.

As I said, are you targeting apes or alpha influencers? The term 'biz' is a very rooted vernacular with b2b sectors and is more edgy and with-the-time in terms of essence and tonality. The term 'banana' on the other hand...

 

[YoYo]

better message

 

[gogeorge]

As I said, are you targeting apes or alpha influencers? The term 'biz' is a very rooted vernacular with b2b sectors and is more edgy and with-the-time in terms of essence and tonality. The term 'banana' on the other hand...

I see .biz advertised all the time in hardcore business magazines. .Biz is really used for behind the scenes business infrastructure websites.

Like a lot of wholesalers don't want to sell to general public, many companies now choose .biz and target corporations with the specialty sites.

 

[Rubber Duck]

Do you have a logical explanation other than backlog? It doesn't fly for me. Just got through reading Duke's article and you might want to read it yourself considering others are saying exactly what I'm saying in this thread.

Another stunning day for dot info. A net expansion of 327. Well it exceeded my expectations anyway!

Regards
Dave Wrixon

 

[Rubber Duck]

Do you have a logical explanation other than backlog? It doesn't fly for me. Just got through reading Duke's article and you might want to read it yourself considering others are saying exactly what I'm saying in this thread.

Yes, the explanation is that Dotster have done an Enom. Anyway, I told them what they can do with their bloody dot.infos. If I wanted the bloody things I would have registered!

Regards
Dave Wrixon

 

[DryHeat]

Yes, the explanation is that Dotster have done an Enom. Anyway, I told them what they can do with their bloody dot.infos. If I wanted the bloody things I would have registered!
Regards
Dave Wrixon

Might speak to the quality of non-.info's you have there....just wana forget about them, otherwise, can't really imagine someone with prime keyword(s) .com minding having .infos for the same prime keyword(s)....for free!!

 

[Theo]

That's some twisted logic...prime keywords have been taken long ago for all TLD's. The chances of prime keywords existing in .info, for the .com owner to register, are ridiculously remote.

 

[DryHeat]

That's some twisted logic...prime keywords have been taken long ago for all TLD's. The chances of prime keywords existing in .info, for the .com owner to register, are ridiculously remote.

Exactly....I can actually relate to it...I have (still) plenty of .coms here and there waiting to be expired (not just foolish to reg them but enough so to do multi-year regs)....don't like being reminded about them at all (and the associated foolishness)...so now if suddenly a registrar jumps out and starts telling me that in looking after my best interests they've regged corresponding .infos on my behalf, its not going to go well with me....

 

[Rubber Duck]

That's some twisted logic...prime keywords have been taken long ago for all TLD's. The chances of prime keywords existing in .info, for the .com owner to register, are ridiculously remote.

Beat me too it! If there was anything I wanted in dot.info, I would not have let a little thing like a registration fee stand in the way. I had registered some dot infos, but will be letting most of them drop now, as I feel the extension has been greatly devalued.

Regards
Dave Wrixon

Exactly....I can actually relate to it...I have (still) plenty of .coms here and there waiting to be expired (not just foolish to reg them but enough so to do multi-year regs)....don't like being reminded about them at all (and the associated foolishness)...so now if suddenly a registrar jumps out and starts telling me that in looking after my best interests they've regged corresponding .infos on my behalf, its not going to go well with me....

I think we can all relate to that!

Regards
Dave Wrixon

 

[mole]

I had registered some dot infos, but will be letting most of them drop now, as I feel the extension has been greatly devalued.

I think you may have sung a different tune if you managed to register sex.info, travel.info and weather.info for free.

You probably registered for free the left-overs of the 2001 landrush, the so-so names that the best domain speculators in the world could not see any value.

And I think, think mayhaps, you know it.

 

[actnow]

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

I didn't know CN's had any value.

I haven't notice any listed on DNJournal's weekly sales list.

 

[Theo]

Can't find the thread any more; dvdrip sold escort.cn for about $4,000 more than 1 year ago.

 

[mkx]

Escort.cn is a good one.

 

[Rubber Duck]

I think you may have sung a different tune if you managed to register sex.info, travel.info and weather.info for free.

You probably registered for free the left-overs of the 2001 landrush, the so-so names that the best domain speculators in the world could not see any value.

And I think, think mayhaps, you know it.

No I registered several domains that might have had a use for me personally, but I have re-evaluated most of them. I never regarded dot info as a suitable vehicle for speculation. I may have been imprudent in some of my dot net investments and I have let a good deal of those expire. Most of which have been snapped up and re-offered. However, a few good ones are worth an ocean of dross, so I have distilled my holdings to those that I feel have the best chance of selling.

This is a game of playing the percentages, which is why I have migrated from dot com and dot net drops which are now very expensive for the purposes of speculation to Asian Language IDNs predominantly in dot com. They might be high risk but at $7 a domain for highly marketable single word and single character domains they seem to represent much better value than the highly priced alphabet soup that is available in mainstream markets, unless you are prepared to stump up many thousands of pounds per domain. I am not saying that this cannot work as a speculative strategy, but you have to have huge resource and know exactly what you are about.

The shear lack of suitable investments at a reasonable price have led many speculators to invest in utter garbage. Whilst I cannot say too much for fear of being banned I would definitely put so called cloned IDNs (enlglish names with cyrillic vowel replacements) in this category.


Regards
Dave Wrixon