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SITE FLIPPERS! I gots a question, if you don't mind.

by Buildingfutures
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So here I am, strolling about the interwebs when suddenly, I come to a 1and1 ad. Now, I'm a guy who uses Namecheap as a domain registrar and Surpass as my hosting, cause I know they will never crap out on me.

But this ad said .99 .info domain names.

Now if I were to say, get a dozen or so of these, make sites, SEO, traffic, and let them age a month or so, would they sell even half as good as a .com domain name?

Thanks for the replies!

-Sean
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  • Profile picture of the author Taylor French
    I have sold sites on .info domains, and they definitely did sell. But they didn't make quite as much money in the end as a .com.

    For example, blogs on .info domains typically made me around $125 versus $175 for a blog on a .com domaim.

    I haven't been selling sites like this for a while, but in my experience it was worth paying more for the .com version at the time, because the price difference I was getting was more (at the time at least) than the difference in the cost of the domains.

    With so much competition these days, many sites aren't selling at all. And Flippa costs a ton to list there. If I were to try to sell these types of sites again, I might try .info again, because there's a little less money to risk if the site doesn't sell. But I would have to test both several times before I drew conclusions.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
      Sean, it's all about perception and has very little to do with what site will
      rank higher. I could show you tons of keywords where info domains are
      number 1 at Google.

      But the perception with most buyers is that a dot com domain name is
      worth more than anything else.

      Is is that perception that you are fighting against and it is a losing battle.

      You can sell info domains but you won't get the same amount of money as
      you would for a dot com.

      Just my 2 cents on the subject.
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    Taylor, Steven, thanks!

    I had a hunch it would be something along the lines of "Yeah, it can work, but not as well."

    And Steven, I totally see where you are coming from with that perception, especially with so many books and courses out there screaming out how .com's are gods of the website world, and none of the others can match up to them.

    I owned a few .info domains at one point, and it was all good, had plenty of traffic and the like, just no conversions whatsoever because of my crappy copywriting skills, lol.

    Thanks again guys,

    -Sean
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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
      Originally Posted by Buildingfutures View Post

      Taylor, Steven, thanks!

      I had a hunch it would be something along the lines of "Yeah, it can work, but not as well."

      And Steven, I totally see where you are coming from with that perception, especially with so many books and courses out there screaming out how .com's are gods of the website world, and none of the others can match up to them.

      I owned a few .info domains at one point, and it was all good, had plenty of traffic and the like, just no conversions whatsoever because of my crappy copywriting skills, lol.

      Thanks again guys,

      -Sean

      Sean, that's a shame. If you're so good at getting traffic, why not
      pick yourself up a top notch book on copywriting and study it?

      Ignore the sections on testimonials, unless you can find one that's
      recently been rewritten (thanks to the FTC crackdown).

      A good copywriting book will help you tons.
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      • Profile picture of the author Buildingfutures
        Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim View Post

        Sean, that's a shame. If you're so good at getting traffic, why not
        pick yourself up a top notch book on copywriting and study it?

        Ignore the sections on testimonials, unless you can find one that's
        recently been rewritten (thanks to the FTC crackdown).

        A good copywriting book will help you tons.
        You know, I'm not sure why I've never picked up a copywriting book. I've seen tons of them at my local bookstore, and I've seen outrageous amounts on the interwebs here. I guess I was never sure who to trust, what to buy, etc.

        And I'd really have to search now thanks to the aforementioned FTC crackdown, even tho I personally was never one who enjoyed using testimonials unless it was for the writing I was doing.
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