.info Domain Names
.info domain names, on the record since 2001
The other half of the 2001 expansion: an ending that promises information. For documentation, guides and reference projects, the address declares the genre honestly. Register from $5.99/yr, with the renewal figure shown before you pay.
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Why .info?
.info launched in 2001 beside .biz in ICANN's first expansion of the root, and its string aged into genuine usefulness: an ending that tells the visitor to expect information — guides, documentation, community resources, project references, public-interest material. It was the first of the new endings to reach mass registration, and a generation of legitimate reference sites lives under it to this day.
The candid note a registrar owes: mass availability made .info attractive to low-quality bulk registration in some eras, and a new .info sending mail should publish its authentication records and build history like any young sender, despite the ending's age. For its natural work — a resource site, a documentation home, the informational companion to a commercial .com — the ending remains exactly what it says. Your details on the record, privacy included free, renewal shown before you pay.
Good Fit
.info works best for
- Documentation, guides and how-to resources
- Community, civic and public-interest information
- The informational companion site to a commercial brand
- Projects, archives and reference material
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The genre in the address
Visitors arrive expecting information — the right framing for reference material, and an honest one.
A 2001 veteran's stability
A quarter-century of operation under a standard gTLD contract: familiar transfers, familiar locks, no surprises in the machinery.
Standard estate terms
WHOIS privacy at no charge, auth codes released on request, and the renewal beside the registration on every search result.
Common Questions
Questions about .info
Is .info trusted, given its bulk-registration history?
For browsing, yes — established reference sites have kept the ending's public meaning intact, and a well-made site on .info raises no eyebrows. For sending mail, treat a new .info as filters will: publish SPF, DKIM and DMARC, warm the domain with genuine correspondence, and let clean history do what the ending's age alone cannot.
When does .info beat a page on my main site?
When the information deserves an identity apart from the commercial brand — an industry guide meant to be cited as a resource rather than an advert, a community project with many contributors, or documentation serving users beyond your customers. Where the material's whole job is feeding authority to the main brand, a path on the main name usually serves better.
Anything unusual about owning a .info long-term?
Nothing structural — it is a standard gTLD with auth-code transfers, the usual sixty-day locks, and the ordinary grace and redemption sequence after a lapse. The advice is the estate's usual: register in your own details, automate the renewal, keep the contact mailbox monitored, and the ending will simply keep working, as it has since 2001.
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