Afilias Releases Annual .Info Report: Over 5.3 Million .Info Registered

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Afilias the registry for the .INFO domain, released its 2009 .INFO Annual Report today,

According to the report, the .Info extension currently ranks 7th among all Top Level Domains (TLD’s) and is has the most registrations of any TLD first introduced since 2001.

.Info, has  over 5.3 million domains registered.

According to Afflias, over 70 % of all .Info’s resolve “to real content and over 1 million unique Web sites.”

“The top regions for registrations are North America at 61% and Europe at 23% and Asia at 11%.

You can read the full 2009 Annual report is available online

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  2. Yaron says

    anybody know where is the best and cheapest place to transfer and renew (not register) .info?
    I have some at GoDaady. they cost about a buck for the first year, but then the price increase dramatically….

  3. Domain Investor says

    It’s annoying when someone registers a domain and immediately comments on ALL of the blogs just to create links to the new domain.
    I assume he is now trying to sell the website.
    As a reader, I feel used and abused.
    (pet peeve.)

  4. Brian Wick says

    non-‘s have no value other than temporary satisfaction for those who cannot afford the only one on the shelf () AND the registrar that sells them – haven’t you ever bought something at the store your really didn’t need and you could n0t use anyway ?

    When a non-ppc business is built around at the , except in extraordinary circumstances (like maybe a tech related domain in the .net space) any production website at a non- will be renamed to a variant in the Internet Space.
    Brian

  5. Brian Wick says

    Mike’s editor seemed to have stripped some of my syntax on comment #4- so I guess I should send it again..

    non.com’s have no value other than temporary satisfaction for those who cannot afford the only one on the shelf ( the .com) AND the registrar that sells them – haven’t you ever bought something at the store your really didn’t need and you could n0t use anyway ?

    When a non-ppc business is built at the .com, except in extraordinary circumstances (like maybe a tech related domain in the .net space), any production website at a non.com will be renamed to a .com variant in the Internet Space. It is only because a PPC site is at the .com that gives the non.com buyer an excuse the operate their business at a non.com.
    Brian

  6. M. Menius says

    @Brian – You views are extraordinarily biased … not to mention highly inaccurate. There is a large world on the internet that exists both outside and alongside of .com.

    Non-com buyers don’t need an “excuse” to brand their website with .us, .biz, .info, .tv, etc.

    Also, factually incorrect is your statement ->”… any production website at a non.com will be renamed to a .com variant in the Internet Space”. I’m sure you’re not prone to blatant fabrication. So, maybe you can substantiate that wild claim?

  7. Brian Wick says

    Hi M. Menius – What is “factually” correct is I spent 250k in legal and judgements in attempts to open the Internet beyond .com – although the references are someone dated now and it is water well under the bridge my one pager at http://www.ConstitutionalLawyer.com says in all. And as the saying goes – if you can not beat them – you join them. I will hold that ALL non.com’s are temporary satifaction and ultimately completely worthless.
    Bri
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