GoDaddy Stops Selling .Info Domains
You probably know and have already benefited from GoDaddy’s promotion for .info domains at the price of $0.99, which has been active for quite a while.
Well, if you had your share of cheap info domain names be happy: as of today, GoDaddy doesn’t sell info domain names anymore. Not only the promotional price is gone, but the .info extension is not available anymore at any price.
As I intended to make another serious info domain names purchase this morning, I tried to find other registrars with promotions. Of course all GoDaddy resellers were affected, none of them offering .info domains anymore.
The best deal I was still able to find was at Moniker, where you can still get the .info domain names for $4.94. All others I’ve checked offered .info domains at $8.75.
There is a myth regarding .info domains, that they are not so credible for Google or other search engines, due to the fact that spammers use them a lot, because of their low price. I have to say that I do own some websites built on .info domain names which perform well in search engines, so I was quite happy with getting lots of domain names for $0.99 a piece (plus ICANN fee and VAT, but nevertheless, it was a good deal anyway).
We surely learned our lesson from this: never postpone what you can do now. We could have done this extensive keyword research one week ago, and not yesterday. We could have bought this new batch of $0.99 info domains yesterday, and not today (when we had this surprise, and we are now facing the situation of paying at least 7 times more for the same purchase).
It seems that Murphy is not sleeping: who would have thought that GoDaddy would stop selling info domains just a couple of hours before we wanted to buy about 100 such domains?
Later update: this lasted only for several hours, enough for us to publish the news everywhere. Now things are back to yesterday’s status, which means that you can still buy .info domains for $0.99 from GoDaddy and all its resellers
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Hi, to be honest I am really pissed with GoDaddy’s .info offer.
I registered loads last year (and I mean loads) and sat on 98% of them. Only to findout they had setup this automated subscription in PayPal and they charged me like 15x as much as $0.99 to renew.
Of course there was little they were willing to do about it. Good post though
Cheers,
Anthony
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Wow, Anthony, I’m sorry to hear that. I knew about the automatic renewals, and actually I like them, because this way I avoid losing names I want to keep. When you signed up with GoDaddy, there was an option whether or not you’d like them to automatically renew your domains. I think it is ticked by default, but you can un-tick it.
Why don’t you try to sell your names in some auction websites? You could get back some of your money, you know?
You could’ve just registered .info domain names at Internet.bs
Thanks, Don, I haven’t found this one. Meanwhile GoDaddy fixed that issue they probably had, so we were able to register the .info domains with them
Yep, just noticed it too when I went to their site. Must be a glitch or maybe they realized that it was a bad move, something something.
I’m a bit surprised to hear that you’re doing relatively well with a .info domain. Most of the people have told me that they are outperformed by .com and .net!
It’s a shame that I didn’t know it before godaddy closed down their .info offers!
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Nadeesha, it seems that there was a glitch on GoDaddy and they sell .info domains again at the same price.
Hi Simonne,
Wanted to return the favor and drop by your blog for a read.
I hadn’t ever heard anything good about having a .info domain so I never purchased one. I know some people may have gotten stung by it because they bought one to lock up every extension for their domain name.
Keep up the good work,
Jeff
Hi Jeff, thank you for stopping by. I hope you’ll find at least a few interesting things here.
I think info domains are suitable for websites which you don’t intend to build as authorities. They are just fine for online shops, the greatest advantage being that you still can find some good keyword names which in .com are already taken.
I find ix-one.com sale .info domain $0.99
I don’t even come across very many sites that use .info. Same goes for .us and .tv, among others. $0.99 for a domain is a sweet deal, so I guess it’s good to have for forwarding purposes.
The Godaddhy deal is still on in the uk godaddy version. I just bought a .info from them at £0.54 which is arount the $1 mark
Yeah trying to get people to your .info site is hard. I bought just the one to promote all my .com websites
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