GoDaddy is a business. .info domains are not generally 89 cents, that was a special. You don't get the special price for a renewal. That is the way domain names work. Otherwise, no one would ever buy anything but .info names, and GoDaddy would go out of business. You can search online for discount codes for GoDaddy renewals, and find one that will get you a better price. These sites have discount codes that apply to renewals for .info. Also, with the discount codes, you might actually get a better deal than $8 on a .com, and there are always discount codes for those.

Plus, you can change the domain name just a little and get it as a .info again really cheap. For example, if you had sillyboy.info, you could change it to thesillyboy.info. It will mess you up in the search engines for awhile, but if your content is the same, and you report the domain change to Google, it shouldn't take long to straighten out.

What most people use the cheap .info names for is to get free privacy. You get free privacy is you buy 5 domain names. Otherwise, it's about $8. So you buy a .com, and 4 .infos, and you get the free privacy for less than $4. Most people never use the .infos they buy for this use, and they don't renew them. When the .com comes back up for renewal, they have to pay the full price for the privacy option, or drop it.
Source(s):
http://livecodes.blogspot.com/
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/hot-deals/725207/?start=840
http://gamesweasel.com/godaddy-coupon-codes/


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