.info domains on the rise, even as our registration prices fall
by Webfusion in Domains, Hosting on June 5th, 2009 Post a commentThis month, Webfusion is offering the lowest price on the market for .info domains – just $0.88! We’re even throwing in 3 months of free hosting to help get you started. Although .com is still king, we’re confident in the future of .info, which has been a fast-growing, widely adopted domain extension since its launch as a TLD in 2001. In fact, .info is the 4th most popular general TLD extension today with over 4.8 million active registrations.
One reason why .info has done so well is that the root word is nearly universal across a wide variety of languages – English, German (Informationen), Dutch (informative), Polish (informacje), Portugese (informações), Czech (Informace) and Spanish (información), to name a few. For etymology fans out there (“may I have the origin of the word?“), the root comes from the Latin informationem (a concept or idea) and has become core root word in many languages.
This year, both registrations and aftermarket sales of .info domains are near all-time highs, reflecting a growing interest in the .info space. Given the extension’s unrestricted status, developers throughout the world have been building .info sites, including some of the top private and public organizations in the world. For example, both Spain.info and Germany.info serve as official tourism portals for their respective countries.Whether you’re looking to invest in .info domains or want to build out some sites (or both), there’s no better time than now.

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