SEO Tricks: Poor .info Domain Name Strategy, Afilias

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Poor .info Domain Name Strategy, Afilias
 

<p>Afilias had submitted a proposal to ICANN for the .INFO gTLD that would allow them to shut down domain names at will if they consider them abusive. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login.</p>
<p>The problem they have is not going to be solved by this strategy. The value of high end .info domains was just diminished because now the registry can take them away from you for anything that they consider abusive, and in this day and age it is easy for someone else to spam for you in order to make you look shady. Given that, who wants to invest $20,000 in buying and building out a premium .info name? Probably only the people who are unaware of what Afilias just did. </p>
<p>Meanwhile .info domain names are on sale at GoDaddy for $1.99 - $8 cheaper than any other extension. And it turns out  spammers are less discriminating than most other business people. So spammers still buy .info and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login. If Afilias wanted to fix the .info quality issue, simply increasing the price at the lower end would go a long way.</p>

 

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