Its one way of promoting .info domain name. Usually registrar can get their dollars back in the second year, the time the domain owner renew their .info domain.
But the .info for the next year will not go above the price of .com will it? Like the .be scam that was free for the first year and $30 per year thereafter.
Well in my opinion, if you lose money you have to find a way to earn it back, so thats probably one of their technique for the .info. at the same time, they get people to use it as well
The .info registry is just trying to promote the usage of .info domains, and I am sure they have succeded very well in getting that done. You don;t see .us or .biz or any other extension as you see .info apart from .com/.net and .org
Results for cheap.info Google: Sorry, no information is available for the URL cheap.info Godaddy: CHEAP.INFO is already taken. Someone is making plans for it, I think there's a market for cheap info.
I was just researching domain registars that do sell .info's and it appears that some are now pushing up the prices on .info's. 1and1 are now selling at $5.99(was up to 5 free to US and Canada) - domainsite is $6.99 - Registerfly is cheap at $1.19 - namepros went from 125$np to 425 $np's now. So you will see a few registars to start flexing their muscles in how much they charge for the .info's
Thats only if you have a promo code and sold only on certain days. I know a few people who have complained that the promo codes didnt work. But I was only going by what was on their front page for pricing of extensions.
I am buying .INFO's in bulk right now as the prices are cheap. Hopefully, it will work out for me in the long run.
It is cheap because no one wants it. When people think of a domain name, they usually think .com, .net, or .org.
.info and .biz don't seem to be popular. Most of our clients only get them when the .ie or .com is taken or if they want to protect their brand. The cheap .info's were only introduced when Affilias couldn't make any sales.. .be is a bit different as it was liberalised - so they got a lot of "free" publicity by doing them ultra-cheap knowing that they'll lose a lot of them in the second year
I guess 4 letter extension instead of 3 is one of reasons. Imagine domain.infos(5 letter). Shortest domain would be 6 letter
It's supply and demand. They are cheap partly as a special offer, to get people to sign up, and partly because nobody wants them. There are so many domain extensions, it's starting to look like a scam when they keep announcing new ones. But there is an admin cost, however small, associated with domain registrations. So I don't think .info can get any cheaper than it is now.