.info Domain
The Information Domain
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What is a .info domain?
The .info domain is the internet's dedicated extension for information resources. It's ideal for knowledge bases, informational websites, and resource centres. One of the original unrestricted TLDs, .info is globally recognised and widely available.
Who should register .info?
Information resources, knowledge bases, educational content, and reference sites.
Why choose .info?
- Clear informational purpose
- No registration restrictions
- Globally recognised since 2001
- Affordable and widely available
Who runs .info, and since when
Registry data from the .info delegation record held by IANA, which maintains the internet's root zone. Eligibility comes from the registry's own policy, and the prices are ours.
- Extension type
- Generic (gTLD)
- Registry operator
- Identity Digital Limited
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2001
- Delegated 26 June 2001
- Who can register
- Open to anyone worldwide, with no eligibility checks and no local presence rule
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £21.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
How .info survived from ICANN's first new gTLD round
For most of the 1990s the internet had a handful of generic endings and no prospect of more. That changed on 16 November 2000, when ICANN's board picked seven proposals out of forty-four completed applications, acting on a recommendation that a limited number be introduced first and the results studied before anyone went further. .info was one of the seven, and one of the first two to reach a signed contract: ICANN and Afilias Limited signed the .info registry agreement on 11 May 2001, alongside .biz.
The launch was cautious in a way that looks strange now. IANA added .info to the root zone in June 2001 for testing and evaluation and ran the nameservers itself while Afilias got ready, with registrations planned for early July and names starting to resolve that September. Twelve years then passed before the round that produced the likes of .live. That gap is why .info sits in an odd little group: old enough that people have seen it for a quarter of a century, plain enough that the word still describes something.
Use splits three ways. There are the sites the word actually fits, meaning documentation, knowledge bases, product manuals, helplines and public information projects. There are defensive registrations parked beside a company's real address. And there is the largest group by a distance, businesses whose .com and .co.uk had both gone and who took the next clean word available.
The price ceiling came off in 2019
Until 2019 the .info contract with ICANN capped both what the registry could charge and how fast it could put that up. The renewal that took effect on 30 June 2019 removed both caps and brought .info into line with the base agreement every extension from the 2012 round uses.
What is left is a notice period rather than a limit. The registry has to give registrars 180 days' written notice before a renewal rise, and has to let you renew for up to ten years at the old price before the new one bites. That second right is the practical one: if you mean to keep the name, buying several years at once is a hedge, not an upsell. By contrast .net still carries a ceiling of ten per cent a year. .info has none at all.
Register a .info when the word is doing real work in the name, or as a companion to the address you actually trade on. If it is going to be your only address and your customers are British, a .co.uk does more for you and costs less every year.
In alignment with the base registry agreement, the price cap provisions in the current .info agreement, which limited the price of registrations and allowable price increases for registrations, are removed from the .info renewal agreement. Protections for existing registrants will remain in place in line with the base registry agreement.
What that means if you are buying one
The protection ICANN refers to is the right to renew for up to ten years at the current price, with 180 days of notice first. Neither of those is a cap. If a .info is going to carry your email address for the next decade, take the ten years while the price is one you are happy with.
Is .info the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.info works well if
- You are publishing reference material, documentation or a knowledge base, and you want the address to say so before anyone clicks.
- You already own the matching .co.uk or .com and want the .info so nobody else runs an information site on your name.
- The word finishes the name honestly: a helpline, a product manual, a campaign whose whole job is telling people something.
- You want a short unhyphenated name in a crowded category, and a clean word on .info beats a padded one on .com.
Look elsewhere if
- You sell to UK consumers who search locally. Google reads .co.uk as a UK signal and .info as nothing in particular.
- You are asking strangers to trust you with money. Registrars have sold .info as a cut-price first-year offer for years, and the association lingers.
- You want a ceiling on renewals. ICANN removed the .info price caps in 2019, so the registry can raise the wholesale price by any amount on 180 days' notice.
- Your business has nothing to do with information. The ending then reads as a compromise, and visitors wonder which address you really wanted.
Selling to UK customers, and this is your only address? A .co.uk does more in local search and costs less every year. See .co.uk pricing.
.info vs .org: which should you register?
These two get compared because they are what people reach for once the .com and the .co.uk have gone. Neither restricts who may register. What differs is the assumption a stranger makes before reading a word of your site.
.org reads as an institution: a charity, a membership body, a project rather than a shop. That habit built up from 1985 and is written into no policy, but it is real. .info reads as a resource, saying the thing on the other side of the link is material rather than a product, which is right for a manual and slightly wrong for a plumber.
On price protection they are now identical, which surprises people. ICANN removed the caps from the .org contract in 2019 too, so neither has a ceiling. Take a long registration on whichever you pick.
| .info | .org | |
|---|---|---|
| In the root zone since | 2001 | 1985 |
| Registry operator | Identity Digital | Public Interest Registry |
| What the word signals | A resource or reference site | An organisation or a cause |
| Non-profits only? | No | No, despite the assumption |
| Short names still free | Some, in most categories | Very few without hyphens |
| Renewal price ceiling | Removed in 2019 | Removed in 2019 |
.info domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .info domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyNo. Google treats .info as a generic top-level domain, so it carries no ranking advantage and no penalty. The real difference is geographic: Google says a country-code extension is a strong signal that a site is aimed at that country, and .info is not one. A .info competing for a UK search starts without something a .co.uk has for free. That is a targeting gap, not a punishment.
Anyone, anywhere. There is no residency test, no company registration to prove, no sector to belong to and no document to supply at any point. The registry does publish an acceptable use policy covering phishing, malware and spam, and it can suspend a domain used that way, but that is a rule about conduct rather than about who you are.
To some readers, yes, and it is fair to say so. Registrars have used .info as a heavily discounted first-year offer for years, which made it attractive for registering names in bulk, and the reputation outlived the practice. Google acts on none of that. Humans do. For a reference site the ending helps you. For taking card payments from strangers, a .co.uk removes a question.
Because there is no longer a ceiling on it. Until the 2019 renewal, the .info agreement with ICANN limited both the registry price and the size of any increase. Both caps went on 30 June 2019. The registry must give 180 days' notice and let you renew for up to ten years at the old price first, so a multi-year renewal is the only real defence.
Identity Digital. The 2019 renewal was negotiated with Afilias Limited, which had run .info since the original contract of 11 May 2001, and the IANA root zone record now names Identity Digital Limited as the sponsoring organisation. None of that reaches a registrant: the agreement attaches to the extension, so the domain, the renewal date and the nameservers all carry over.
A .co.uk, in almost every case. It costs less, it is what a British customer expects, Google treats it as a UK signal, transfers are near instant because they are an IPS tag change at Nominet, and WHOIS privacy is free for UK individual registrants. A .info earns its place beside that as a resource site, rarely instead of it.
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