Comments on: .INFO Domains are .DEAD

By: Bobby

Bobby — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:18:32 +0000

Actually your pretty mis informed. If you search online there are people who will tell you that .Info is working. And there are people who will tell you that it doesnt matter if you have a .com, .net, .co, .info, in terms of serach engines.

I myself have a .Info. I am a Dj that plays Indian music and American to by the way, and depending on what people type, I get on the first page of yahoo and google. .

Do I always get on the first page no. Do I want a .Com yes. But we know how names are with .Com’s. And hey .Info’s are cheap.

By: מאמן Zohar

מאמן Zohar — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:39:19 +0000

I’m not a spammer, even the WMRT using the .info but I agree that spammers are looking for cheap domains and so the search engines knows that they’re for spammers (in most cases).

By: gamesmad

gamesmad — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:21:55 +0000

4 years ahead of your time about .xxx domains!

By: @Mydigitalpoint

@Mydigitalpoint — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:50:29 +0000

Funny thing, talk about spammy iINFO domiains being owner of WordPress, the most spammy script ever developed with tons of spam-intended plugins. And no, I’m not owner of a dot INFO domain

By: Dan T.

Dan T. — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:01:41 +0000

I use .info domains for informational sites… why should I imply that they’re commercial by using .com? I also use .name, another domain introduced at the same time as .info, for my personal site.

By: Richard Cummings

Richard Cummings — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:24:44 +0000

I use http://richardcummings.info for my professional site name. Someone else had the .com and uses it for…nothing. I think .info domains can be popular but it just takes more time!

By: kanmi ogundipe

kanmi ogundipe — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:03:51 +0000

Dont agree with you about .info being dead. Its in fact undergoing a resurgence, and a lot of interest. It accounts for 30% of new domain signings and this is not a small percentage. You just watch. .info dead? I beg you your pardon!

By: chris pirol

chris pirol — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:37:35 +0000

wanker….

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:54:14 +0000

Perhaps, if enough people add links to their sites with quality _information_, then the validity of the lead article will weaken considerably. The language used is pretty forceful, so I don’t think that an apology for its wild and inaccurate will be readily forthcoming.

Having registered the http://www.caronia2.info domain for almost 5 years now, and paid-up for the next 10, I’m far from convinced that I should kill it off. With visitors staying anything up to 4 hours at a time and record visitor counts of 9,000 a month, I’m dead happy!

Not bad for a site about a ship that foundered over 35 years ago, is it?

Regards
Steve (Peter S.)
Caronia II Timeline Webmaster

By: Vlad Nicula

Vlad Nicula — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 06:53:17 +0000

I am registering a .info domain right now, and like it or not, I will use it for a junk site, and guess what, it will make me money, so… just let it go, .info domains are useful if you have a brain between your two ears.

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:42:16 +0000

Yes, there are .info sites out there (such as the ones right in front of me) that aren’t owned by scammers, and are paying off. Heck, people have taken popular company names from the .com’s and phished for their users with their .net or .co.uk …which, well yeah, might have been a better choice than the .info…ugh scammers.

And maybe some of us are looking for a name with a good appraisal. If it’s a fair price for a domain, I might as well go ahead and register for a year and see what happens. But, we’ll have to see, obviously, if all this negative talk about them will sway the good businesses from bidding.

Or maybe, just a thought, maybe scammers will start to realize .info’s are becoming less credible and give it up so the real people might end up more fortunate with their .informative sites…?

And me, personally…I’m liking .info(rmation). Hmm, not com(mercial), not net(work), not org(anization)…an info site…kinda cool.

By: Registry Cleaner Comparison

Registry Cleaner Comparison — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:55:57 +0000

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.

By: DrummerDude

DrummerDude — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:28:41 +0000

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.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:53:35 +0000

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

By: Prabhath

Prabhath — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:23:08 +0000

.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