.INFO Domains are .DEAD

I used to own htmlfaq.info. I was going to turn it into a website help site to help new webmasters. I got bored of it pretty quick though. I let it expire.

So very true… I am unfortunately worse off… I am the owner of an accidently mis-spelled .info domain!

http://www.stm.info

The Metropolitan Transit Authority over her in New York uses http://mta.info. That being said, it is possibly the only .info site I’ve ever visited.

http://www.colloquy.info/

http://www.mta.info

! lol

We arent spammers.

It was the only domain avaiable to us that featured th company name.
It does cause some problems, some web forms still dont acept it as a valid e-mail address but other than that no issues.

It doesn’t help that they were giving .info domains away for free for a year - I’m not sure how they thought that was going to work out for them (maybe getting people to start using the domains would make them re-register?), but any time you have a loophole in the domain-granting business (see free domains, or the 5-day registration grace period trick), spammers will game it.

The only .info domain that I have seen that actually has a purpose is http://www.mta.info - the home of NYC’s Metro Transit Authority.

Well said. A lot of registrars offered up .INFO domains for free back last December when the .INFO registry opened, so every idiot on the Internet got a .INFO domain or ten (… myself included).

Ok, so I can think of one and only one .info site that is not spam, and i am not even sure why it is a .info but it is http://www.dotmac.info

My blog is on .info. Not junk, not spam. I’m no misinformed, no brand masochist. Why would .info imply a spammer. Why would an indiviual like me opt for .com/ .net /.org etc.? Aren’t these TLDs defiened with an implication (commercial/ network related/ organization). And if most ppl ignore them… u want us, the politically correct ones, to f*** off?

BTW, .info is some $3 less than other TLDs at GoDaddy, my registrar :D

Here’s one that’s legit. (The only one I know of…)

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/

Steve Gibson uses: spinrite.info. It’s redirected to his GRC websit.

I hate to disagree with you….

http://www.google.com/search?q.....o&

Wikitruth.info, perchance?

http://www.growl.info/

This contains some very helpful Linux how-tos for the Fedora, Ubuntu, and Mandriva distros. I use the Ubuntu ones as a reference quite frequently.

http://www.easylinux.info

Amen, brother. Amen.

I disagree with everything in that blog post. My blog has a .info domain, but only because .com/.net/.org/etc where already taken. I’m a not spammer. I find it a little immature to say that just becuase someone uses an odd domain extension, they are automatically a spammer. You…. er… TLD-ist!

Unfortunately, it’s sad, but a lot of sites with .info gets me worried about whether to take the risk and click on the link. I have found one that is legit and a great gadget site ( http://www.digital-lifestyles.info ) so you can’t say that they’re all spammers or similar.

There’s no way I will go with a .info domain for the same reason. I’d rather wait or think of a different name with a .net or .com domain. Thankfully, I got a .net and then recently snapped the .com (but not without some stupid domain registrar trying to reserve it for a while, until I waited it out).

“I am tired of thinking about death. I am tired of worrying about people. Mostly, I am just plain tired of being a counterweight. I want to tip the fucking scales! I want to move mountains! I want to be mighty and alive! Alive! Alive!” .INFO Domains are .DEAD “Can anybody point me to a single .INFO domain that isn’t junk? All I see is .SPAM and .CRAP. The .INFO TLD has “officiallyâ€ÂÂ? been co-opted by idiots.” Snakes on a Motherfucking Catwalk, Part 2

Hey, Thanks Chris!

http://askleo.info - as heard on The Chris Pirillo Show!

Leo

Try http://www.vtwines.info. We need to check to see if .com and .org or .net are available now.

But it is a legit web site for those interested in Enology (wine making).

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You can try http://www.familytable.info/ although that url just redirects to the site on TV Land’s home page.

Another useful .info is

http://sieve.info/

It’s about the Sieve filtering language, which is defined in RFC 3028.

http://powerandclass.info/ - UMass Minuteman Marching Band parent/friends site - pics/videos/audio/schedule/alumni

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I registered openforall.info (which I made into a pile of junk) back when .infos were free… who can blame me?

The Orange County Library System (aka Orlando, FL) owns http://www.ocls.info/

I’m a real estate agent and I recently started creating little one page websites for specific topics. I have one for rent to own properties and one for distressed sellers. I have the latter using fastclose.info but with all the reading I’ve been doing about .info being spammy I went ahead and registered easyfastclose.com instead.

http://hulla.info is the website of the now retired Hullabaloo rave company in Toronto, Canada. They’re giving away a DJ mix set every week for the next 80-odd weeks via Bittorrent! Visit today and allow the music to tug at your happy hardcore heartstrings!

http://www.regular-expressions.info has a great list of (can you guess?) regular expressions.

http://www.e-zpass.info, though they have a better webpage at http://www.e-zpassiag.com.

Basically it’s to keep (IAG) specific info separate from info about buying an E-ZPass (which you can do at http://www.e-zpass.com ).

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This is ridicolous, to say that all .info domains are crap or that anyoen registering one is ill informed ?? Don’t understand that at all.

My personal website is a .info domain, http://www.lundin.info

I see nothing wrong with the top domain info which obviously stand for “information”.

I really havent gotten much spam from other info domains so not sure what you are talking about at all.

a new domain, I’ve decided to move the site to a new domain – stealthpuppy.com. Why you ask? Good question. Well, trustedaccess.info is a little limiting and after looking at it for a few months it’s just plain boring and I’m also thinking that the .info TLD is not the best choice. Now, thanks to Dugie’s suggestion, I’ve got something that can mean just about anything and it’s a little whimsical too. The content is going to stay the same; however, I’m only going to use a single blog (this one). I know I’m not doing myself any

[...] So, let me make this really clear. The .INFO is a domain extension that is used primarily by spammers due to the high availability of desirable domains and low cost of registration. If you register a .INFO domain, and then send out the URL to anyone via email, there is a very strong chance of it getting blocked. The saddest case of this I’ve seen is a particular free email filter that appends its own URL to each email users subsequently send out. That is to say, each message has “We got free mail filtering - see http://www.ourfreemailfilter.info to find out more” (the URL has been changed to protect the guilty). Messages including the .INFO domain are seen by SpamButcher as similar to messages containing large .GIF files or originating from Nigeria. It knows they aren’t always spam, but there’s a real good chance they are. SpamButcher knows about this particular provider, and we take efforts not to block their users. I don’t know much about the company - but they appear at least on the surface to be legitimate. Most other spam utilities have data sets that probably don’t allow this exception. I have to suspect most users of this service are having a good chunk of their mail blocked. What’s frustrating is that anyone who’s familiar with spam should really know this. I have no idea what kind of drugs they were on when picking the domain. Maybe the marketing department is at fault. So, if you’re registering a new URL - spend the extra $10 / year to get a .COM domain. That is, if you like using email. [...]

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.info can be a great extension — esp. when a short name is needed (microbes.info) and other extensions are taken/used.

Besides, if it’s good enough for Cal Tech (AlbertEinstein.info), I imagine it is good enough for most of us (but apparently not you). They don’t strike me as being “spammers, brand masochists, or misinformed” –I think they have proven to be a fairly bright bunch over there in Pasadena.

In fact, they obviously used their intelligence to bypass the (no doubt exorbitant) prices the speculators are surely trying to get for AlbertEinstein.com/net.

Frankly, in this and other cases, I actually prefer the .info (there are a number of Medical, Health and Science sites that benefit from using .info).

Open your eyes and stop denigrating what can be a terrific domain extension.

For the record, I personally own many dot.coms and prefer them for most situations, but I also own some very strong .info domains (and .tv), and I’d have to say I’m VERY happy to own them, and plan on developing them in the future.

My website is a site to remember the good times that people had back in the 1970s, 80s and 90s when SeaWorld of Ohio was as popular as the other 3 in the USA.

and its co-branded with the much longer URL
http://www.seaworldohiomemories.us

… Maybe a little late to reply, but still.
I registered the .info for my main project after seing the .net taken and parked by “marketers”. I had the .com and .org already, and, while the .biz (and all others) didn’t interest me, I wasn’t about to spit on a domain registrars were throwing at me for nearly nothing.
I see it more as a complement to the .com, where I’ll host a satellite informative website, without cluttering the .com with unnecessary pages. I could have done that with subdomains, I know, but then I just wouldn’t have bothered making the content.
If that makes me a brand masochist, well, too bad.

As far as I am concerned, I don’t care much about the .info being the den of spam. If it can be even remotely useful, then I’ll use it.

There is one more .info domain which absolutely normal and it’s doing business.

.info is a generic top-level domain intended for informative websites, although its use is not restricted. It was a part of ICANN’s highly publicized announcement, in late 2000, of a phased release of seven new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). The event was billed as the first addition of major gTLDs to the Internet since the DNS was developed in the 1980s. The seven new gTLDs, selected from over 180 proposals, were meant in part to take the pressure off the overcrowded .com domain.

.info has been the most successful of the seven new domain names, with over 4 million domain names registered up to March 2007. In addition, over 1.6 million .info websites are in active and dedicated use. In the immediate aftermath of September 11th, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority switched to the easier to remember mta.info website to lead users to latest information on schedules and route changes on the area’s transportation services. Spain.info is used by Spain’s tourism board to promote visitors to come to Spain.

.info is an unrestricted domain, meaning that anyone can obtain a second-level domain under .info. As a generic, unrestricted domain name, anyone can use .info for any purpose, similar to .com, .net or .org domains. This is in contrast to a TLD such as .edu or .coop, which comes with criteria. .info is the first and only top-level domain that was explicitly created and chartered for unrestricted use, though various other TLDs have ended up that way as a de facto situation. .info means information in about 37 languages around the world, and is a neutral name. Afilias has been aggressive in its marketing of .info, with significant registrar incentives and outreach events.

The .info domain has been operated since its creation by Afilias. In 2003, .info was the first gTLD domain to support IETF standards-based internationalized domain names, as described at .info IDN. Registrations are processed via accredited registrars and internationalized domain names may also be registered

I have had an info domain for more than two years (yachats.info) and receive a reasonable amount of traffic.

Can I point out that .info is short for .information? Or is everyone so sucked in by the “ZoMg WDF, Use every domain name possible, spammers” and so on that they forget the original intention. A cheap alternative for various departments or organizations to host a site that they don’t want to pay the full deal for on a domain that they have to sit on just to reserve the name. If people are taking .info JUST because of the fact that it has a lot of open domain names, then people arent using their imaginations. Use a pun with a .com or something. Use a funny quote for your domain. Some humour/cleverness would be appreciated in this endless sea of E-Idiots out there.

to pave the Pacific. Business models were for squares, and ad revenue was for trad media, daddio. Crazy days. Way back then, Dot.TK domains became the TLD of choice for spammers and scammers - the old school.info domain, if you will. Indeed, you’d be forgiven for concluding that the Tokelau islands‘ 1,300 citizens (pictured below) were all hard-grafting Viagra® salesmen and 419 scammers (in cahoots with PayPal’

The only time I have seen .info used if for those looking to use a specific keyword based domain name, but the .com, .net and .org have already been taken.