This might be a bit silly question but I'm curious why most of the domain registrars sell .info domains for a cheap price in the first year?
If you look at internet - most of the goods are non-tangible stuff, and pricing is not set as you would do in a industry like manufacturing (where you derive a cost looking at raw material + labour + overheads etc) ... so all in all, in internet business esp domain names, if I wish to promote a particular extension (to win new customers, promote new services etc) - the cost can be tweaked (as long as it is above my buy price - I can set sell price that suits me to make an attractive offer) and hope someone would buy other stuff as well - and become a long term client instead of one purchase. some of the factors .. Plz ignore my previous response. Thanks G
that's not what the guy asked. he asked why are domains so cheap the first year on big registrars . I'm wondering too..
well, my opinion is that .info is rarely used, so cheap price for first year is just marketing strategy of hosting providers
Plus that they are considered as spam TLDs by major search engines because most of the webmasters used them for spam since they were from start either free or very very cheap... @tihomir_wwf ... I doubt that hosting providers have anything with that... domain name registrars maybe but hosting providers not
I feel they are so cheap because they are not that popular *difficult to get a super nice one that works with the extension* & they are hoping you will re-register the .infos. So they are basically banking on the re-registration fees.
In one of the registrars support forum same question was asked, they compare the price of godaddy which is 0.99 and that registrars price which is close to $5 the staff said that high volume domain registrars are able to get the .info's for free for the first year!!
I use .info for several feeder web sites and I don't see any traffic difference. They work fine for me just as the .com sites do. I only take them if there are no other options, as customers still think in terms of .com. However, if you are looking for super cheap domains or to play around with new concepts, they work well.