Why are .info domains cheap?

In my opinion, the .info doesn't seems to have a take up like the .com and other domains. The mainstream are just not familiar with it and I just do not have quite a good gut feeling about it. I guess the TLD knows that and driving the prices down in order to get a good take up. Some are offering two for one deals, where you buy a mainstream domain and get the .info for free or dirt cheap.

I don't see myself buying web sites with the .info domain name, maybe pure adsense sites but nothing more. I am still going about buying the .com or .net names and nothing more.

 

I think .info are good for non profit sites and not suitable for a commercial. Just like .org are for organizations.

 

I just bought 16 .info in the hope that the site i build on them will have value by next year before i renew it.

The price i bought the 16 .info domains is equivalent to 3 .com's.

Let's see what happens next year when it's time to renew thsoe.

 

I purchased a .info domain a few days ago...my first one

already have done a little work on it...its a hot keyword aswell has 400 million google results

 

Digging more on .info , you can find lots of dictionary words still available

 

very nice discussion about this topic. we have learn a lot. thanks to everyone

 

So technically though, if all you are doing is aiming for SERP results, then the .info is worth just as much as a .com, .net, or .org ?

Sure people won't type in your domain, but if you expect 99% of hits to come from other links or SERPs, what is the worry?

 

for seo, extension hardly matters...

 

This is probably partially true.

 

That would seems true since the second year of registration goes back up to the same price as a .com . I supposed if you are using the domain, you be stuck with whatever price you need to register it under later.

 

Special offers early on, hiked up prices later.

 

However,in some countries, .info is more expensive than .com .

 

Exactly - the registrars are driving up market sales by making them very very very cheap to purchase. They are taking a loss in order to gain market share and hopefully make up the difference the second year with renewal, whois protection and addon services.

 

namepros is still @ 125np$ for the 1st year..

 

namecheap is offering at 1.7x these days

 

The example of .info is very strong but they are not the only ones with the 'buy cheap, renew/transfer expensive' idea

Even some .com.net.org... registrars use it to sell webhosting or higher domain name services after the first year

All i can say is that it works. Look the awareness in TLDs
As i see it right now they are .com.net.info (don't include ccTLD)

 

There are two factors that influence a domain name's price

(1) ICANN Fee
(2) Profit expected by the registrar

I think that ICANN doesn't charge too much for .infos and that is why they are cheaper, because the sellers have more scope.

IT

 

No, ICANN or Registrar have nothing to do with this

ICANN fee is $0.25 fixed
Registry (not registrar) is the one who set the price and the marketing policy for the TLD
For .com for example the registry fee is $6.00 so the cost for the registrar is $6.25
Registrars below this loose money only to get them from other sources (renewal/transfer fee higher, webhosting services, whois protection, other services)

The registry fees that were in effect for the known TLDs before two years (2004) were these :

.com/.net - US $ 6.00 per Domain Year
.org - US $ 6.00 per Domain Year
.info - US $ 5.75 per Domain Year
.biz - US $ 5.30 per Domain Year

So you see when the registy owner decreased as a marketing effort its share, resulted to this low price you know now

 

I still have a couple of dot info's but I now mainly stick to dot com's.