.info domain registrations pass 5,000,000

[gpmgroup]

.info registrations have just past 5,000,000 last night.

They passed 4,000,000 around 20 Feb 07 (8 months ago)

[King_Fisher]

I wonder how many Millions of dollars of income that has generated for

Go Daddy and others domains registers and hosting companies?...KF

[gpmgroup]

GoDaddy has just over 1,500,000 .info registrations so excluding 1st year special offers .info renewals =$9.99 ~ $15,000,000 revenue (+ ICANN FEEs @ .22c + Hosting & Privacy up sells etc.)

[Webwork]

5 million is a start but I just performed a random check of Google's SERPs, searching popular single search words - such as "travel" and "sports" - and then used my browser's search function to find any .info strings on the page. (100 results setting).

No luck.

I'm afraid spammers have done a lot of harm to the .info gTLD as a result of the recurring $.99 "sales". $.99 domains are known as discardable domains. The first time they ran a .info domain special huge numbers were registered - free. Then, on cue, one year later an equal number lapsed. They're doing the same again.

Sometimes I think the .info registry is running in survival mode, when they keep running specials. If they keep doing so, and if each special is followed by a period of .info spamming, I think they will slowly grind the .info gTLD registry into the ground.

Still, there are a few noteworthy aftermarket .info domain sales, from time to time, so it ain't all bad. ;-P

But see for yourself. Set Google to 100 results and then search the SERPs for any .info based websites. My guess is that unless you are primed and know where to search you will have a hard time getting a hit for a .info website in the first 100 results.

Music, Vacation, Homes, Sex, Vides, Games, . . 0,0,0,0,0,0

Shopping, Celebrity,

There's some great .info domains they're just not making an appearance . . except in my email and in Google Adwords.

[edited by: Webwork at 9:14 pm (utc) on Oct. 10, 2007]

[Hunter]

There are generic .info's out there, some multi-word, that get daily typeins and not just the usual suspects like sex etc...

[draggar]

I have a few keyword.info, keywords.info, and other very close domains. I plan on building informational communities on them based on the keywords so hopefully they'll appear near Google's top by mid next year.