.info domain names are so inexpensive!

Success With Dany · 11-25-2009, 12:48 AM

They go for 1-2$!!!

Is the low price proportional to their (supposed) low
Internet credibility?

Vanquish · 11-25-2009, 12:50 AM

They are best used for redirects in order to mask affiliates links. If you want credibility get a .com domain name.

HomeBizNizz · 11-25-2009, 12:51 AM

Who sells them so low...?

TristanPerry · 11-25-2009, 01:12 AM

That's the promo first-time price.

The renewal price is ~$8 as normal.

There's always a catch. Especially when regging 'cheap' domains with GoDaddy

Prestigio · 11-25-2009, 01:20 AM

Is the supposed "low-ranking" of .info domains an actual confirmed fact?

csgcsg · 11-25-2009, 01:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Prestigio

Is the supposed "low-ranking" of .info domains an actual confirmed fact?

godaddy.com always sell .info for 89 cents

JMPruitt · 11-25-2009, 01:39 AM

I agree. i use them as a sub site or as a redirect. anything I don't want or care for rankings on.

Croque · 11-25-2009, 02:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by csgcsg

godaddy.com always sell .info for 89 cents

And if you buy 5 you get them for .79

Joe Walter · 11-25-2009, 03:13 AM

i get mine for 50c

Zeb · 11-25-2009, 03:32 AM

I saw a .info domain rank top 5 for a product review keyword in google and it's an average competitive kw. Though that domain had the exact kw in it, but it still proves to me that maybe google is giving .info's the same weight as .com's as long as you feed the url with the usual links etc to rank.

sbucciarel · 11-25-2009, 06:21 AM

I read that Google gives them less weight due to the fact that so many spammers/marketers use them because they are so cheap. Whether or not this is true, I don't know, but I only buy them to protect a domain name that I purchase in the .com or .net or .org. I take the .info to keep out of someone else's hands. I rarely ever put any content on them, and hate to see website auctions with a .info domain. I have purchased them and then bought a better domain to relaunch the site on, so their resell value is not real good.

Chris Kent · 11-25-2009, 06:25 AM

Personally I think the idea that they rank less well is a myth. I have a site which is a .info in the health niche and Google loves it.

Domainers also believe (at least a year ago they did) that .info was a solid and credible TLD to watch for the next few years as all the com/net/org are saturated and good names already taken.

The Mighty Mariner · 11-25-2009, 07:10 AM

Hi
I can only speak from my experience but I launched around 50 sites last year. Roughly 35 were .info and the others a mixture of .com and .uk. (Oh yes plus 1 .biz and 1 .net) Almost without exception the .info did much worse in the search engine and visitor trafic than the other sites. I will have not renewed the .info sites.

I cant see the point of registering sites just to mask redirects. I have one .com site that I use to create sub domains to do this. Why waste 50c or $1.

topgun129 · 11-25-2009, 09:25 AM

a .com is always your best bet. i've never gone with .info's!

champrock · 11-25-2009, 12:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trixxie12

i get mine for 50c

where do you get for 50c?!! its very very cheap. i used to think Godaddy was cheapest

Instructor · 11-25-2009, 12:14 PM

They get indexed slower, but if you build the appropriate backlinks to them like any other extention they will rank just as well.

Kevin Koop · 11-25-2009, 12:25 PM

In my personal experience, .info domains will make it harder to garnish good SERP rankings. That's not to say that they can't rank well, just that it will almost always take longer and may never produce your desired results.

Google does appear to give extra benefit to .com, .org and .net domains so those are the three I stick to UNLESS I have a special situation. If I'm building a "feeder blog" or doing anything else where I'm not really all that concerned with SERP rank or the branding that comes with a .com domain, I consider using a .info

MichaelHiles · 11-25-2009, 12:25 PM

But a .fm domain is $70/year.

Go figure.

bgmacaw · 11-25-2009, 12:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kevin Koop

Google does appear to give extra benefit to .com, .org and .net domains

They don't.

bgmacaw · 11-25-2009, 12:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MichaelHiles

But a .fm domain is $70/year.

Go figure.

Boutique TLD's are the commemorative stamps of the 21st century for some small nations like the Federated States of Micronesia and Tuvalu. Why tax your citizens when you can squeeze money out of foreigners?

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