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

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.

.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

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.

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.