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.info domains - what is so wrong with them?

07-17-2008, 08:11 PM

I have read peoples comments before about .info domains being worthless, etc. I've never actually found out why people have such a bad opinion of them. I don't have any at the moment but I was thinking of picking up a few as there's a 3 buck special offer on at namecheap at the moment. Was thinking of buying 10 or 20 and developing some blogs on them. Better that using free hosted blogs and almost as cheap! Problem is I would hope to sell 5 or so of the developed blogs in maybe 6 months time, but will the .info part of the blogs bring down the possible asking price.

Any info on dot infos would be greatly appreciated

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07-17-2008, 08:12 PM

There is nothing wrong with them.
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07-17-2008, 08:12 PM

I think most people say they are worthless because for the longest time they were only $0.99 each and due to that they were commonly used by spammers. Not sure if the search engines deduct any sort of trust rank based on this, but I seem to do fine with the few .infos that I have.

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07-17-2008, 08:14 PM

You are seriously fast at answering these questions, wow! Thanks again.

I wonder though why are so many people against them if there's nothing wrong with them. Something must have happened at some stage that gave them their bad name surely?

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07-17-2008, 08:17 PM

Originally posted by st0ned

I think most people say they are worthless because for the longest time they were only $0.99 each and due to that they were commonly used by spammers. Not sure if the search engines deduct any sort of trust rank based on this, but I seem to do fine with the few .infos that I have.

Very possibly true, definately if i was a spammer and looking for disposable domains I would go for the cheapest option. Not fair if there's a penalty given to all .infos though, if google, yahoo, etc are to be fair they should not (and probably do not) group all .whatevers together and tar them with the same spammers brush.

Good to hear you have had no problems with your own .infos too, thanks.

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07-17-2008, 08:18 PM

They have been tarred with the spam brush, and best avoided. I haven't seen a #1 ranking .info site for any porn phrase for several years. Maybe msn you might get a dribble of traffic. Seriously wouldn't even waste $1 on one.
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07-17-2008, 08:20 PM

Originally posted by John.

Very possibly true, definately if i was a spammer and looking for disposable domains I would go for the cheapest option. Not fair if there's a penalty given to all .infos though, if google, yahoo, etc are to be fair they should not (and probably do not) group all .whatevers together and tar them with the same spammers brush.

Good to hear you have had no problems with your own .infos too, thanks.

You're welcome. But I honestly would not be surprised if they did in fact penalize all .infos to a certain degree.

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They have been tarred with the spam brush, and best avoided. I haven't seen a #1 ranking .info site for any porn phrase for several years. Maybe msn you might get a dribble of traffic. Seriously wouldn't even waste $1 on one.

True, I have not seen any either.

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07-17-2008, 08:21 PM

loll .... keyword dot infos are hot..

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07-17-2008, 08:22 PM

The're as good as a .org or a .net I guess.
The problem is when people try to return to your site, they'll most likely try www.whatever.com , unless you make a BIG deal of the extension.

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07-17-2008, 09:02 PM

if you are building to sell, you can't fight the prejudice so you are better off staying away from them

if you are building to keep, then go for it

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07-17-2008, 09:52 PM

Thanks for all the replies folks.

I think I might spend a few bucks this weekend registering a few, at 3 bucks each I might just get 10 and see what I can do with them. If it doesn't work out it's not the end of the world.

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07-17-2008, 09:55 PM

godaddy are currently selling them for $1.99 plus ICANN reg fee (which from memory is 20c)

Sometimes you can get them for $0.99

Buy up a handful, if your experiment works then transfer them to a better registrar and renew them, otherwise let 'em go.
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07-17-2008, 10:46 PM

They .suck

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07-17-2008, 11:02 PM

.info, and most other extensions, get a bad break because there are no household name sites on them.
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07-17-2008, 11:07 PM

.com will always be #1. There are a ton of extentions out there. .pro, .travel, .jobs, .coop. Recently .asia, .mobi (which i think has some promise) and just today, .me.

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07-17-2008, 11:10 PM

.info are every good to use (on the right way) ;)
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07-17-2008, 11:25 PM

because .info were used by seo spammers
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07-17-2008, 11:30 PM

where = are and it works great ;)

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because .info were used by seo spammers
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