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10 Reasons to Love .info Domains
  1. .info Registry Logoinfo is a keyword which makes it great for SEO. If you consider people searching for golf, you have a good number of people searching for "golf info" but no-one would ever consider looking for "golf net", "golf org" or "golf biz".

  2. Its still possible to pick up great domains. While .com, .net and .org and covered by the large firms who make it impossible for small fry to pick up valuable dropping domains, there are still .info gems that can still be caught by people like you and me. In the last month, we've picked up major cities and lakes in the state of Georgia including lakelanier.info and johnscreek.info.

  3. They cost about 80 cents! What else can you buy now thats of any value for less than a dollar? You can get 8 .infos for the price of 1 .com.

  4. There are major info domains in use, often in the area of tourism, for which its perfectly suited. Try Spain.info, Peru.info, Norway.info, Germany.info, Austria.info, Amsterdam.info, Cancun.info, Bratislava.info and many, many more.

  5. The extension is perfect for history and education sites. Whereas .com, .net, .org, .biz and the others have been shoehorned into use for general information sites, nothing fits as perfectly as .info. See webhosting.info, chomsky.info, pinyin.info and watergate.info for starters.

  6. It works in multiple languages. Every major Western European language has a word beginning with "info..." that mean "information".

  7. Its a global extension. Unlike a .us, .co.uk or .de, a .info domain can brand your site worldwide.

  8. It can complement a company's main site. Quite a lot of companies are now using their .com to serve as their main selling platform and .info as the main resource for stock market and investor information.

  9. .info led the way in International Domain Names. Long before .com and .net allowed people to register domains in more than just the Roman Alphabet, .infos could be registered in multiple Scandanavian, East European and Asian languages.

  10. Did I mention they cost 80 cents? Ok ... reason #10 is that .info is actually used more than the other TLDs that were introduced at the same time in 2001. Where as .biz, .aero, .coop and other disasters have fallen by the wayside, info is still going strong with 1.6 million domains in use according to Wikipedia. Thats pretty good when you consider that 70% of .com domains registered every year never get used.

  11. Ok - we'll have a #11 as a bonus. They are starting to sell well too! 2007 saw sales such as NewYork.info for $46,392, Credit.info for $36,000, Casino.info for $35,127 and Camping.info for $28,100.
 

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#1 Tim 2007-01-19 13:55
Where do you get .info domains for $.80? New to this and trying to get started.
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#2 Steve Burge 2007-01-19 14:06
We do it by being a reseller for ResellerClub.com.

There are also a lot of places that offer info promos on an irregular basis. Search somewhere such as NamePros.com for the latest deals.
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#3 green 2007-08-27 16:41
I agree, now a days, .info is doing good. I am finding many sites with, .info extension in google searches, recently i was searching for tax related info, i found www.taxreport.info to be the best than any other .com or .net to my surprise
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#4 Ruby Mora 2008-08-27 01:27
I recently started to started building my own "online empire" ;-) and was really attracted by the price of .info domains but then afterwards when I started working on the link building and all I thought I may have taken the wrong decision as so far I haven't seen any .info domains ranking well on search engines... But I hope google will be giving .info a bit more value in the future.
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#5 G36C 2008-10-21 12:27
Hi Ruby,
How much time has passed since you've started building? It's not unusual for any domain these days to not get indexed within few weeks. For example, I'm working on the airsoft gun g36c.info site and I haven't seen it in google yet. Yet I keep trying. Nice article. BTW, not an ad or anything - godaddy is selling .info for 99 cents now
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#6 Jon 2009-11-30 22:39
Two more reasons to get a .info, you can have whois privacy on them and they can be registered for up to 10 years (you will not forget to renew them)
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#7 erick 2010-02-01 01:22
For those interested, there is now a Facebook page for .info domain holders to interact and do business.
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