.INFO Domains - Waste Of Time?

[AmmyTisdale]

.info is not the waste of time. There extention type domains are basically based on information.

 

[dcristo]

I was in Sydney recently and noticed that the main rail service there uses the domain cityrail.info – which is printed on the back of every ticket and must been seen by hundreds of thousands of people each year. I guess they didn't consider it a 'waste of time'.

- Rob

Yep, and the extension makes perfect sense for the site.

 

[yanhuang]

I do not think this is true at all. One of the domain names I own is GoodSkinCare.info and it gets tons of long tail traffic!

 

[topdom]

There shouldn't be any difference between tld's; otherwise this would just mean discrimination. There is a discrimination in Corporate world against anything but .com; this doesn't mean .com is better; this just means corruption. Search engines care about money and power coming from information they collect from users. Do tld's have anything to do with this? Google banned a tld (something like co.cl?) because it was full of spam. We have a quality info site which did very well for many years, so at least in those days there was no discrimination against .info at least. Also we were told officially that it was a quality site. Now we are almost banned. There is no explanation. Only explanation is "quality issue"? What quality issue: you congratulate us for having such a quality site officially, and then you ban us and say there is a quality issue; although we made no change on the site. Is Google a better search engine now? No, we see spam sites all the time; although they are not as obvious as previous spam sites. I suspect Google manually determines rankings of sites now for many hot searches; and you think their algorithm is good. Maximizing profit and power, this is all the purpose. We knew of course being dependent on a search engine is risky although we were doing well. Once there is monopoly they can do anything they want; ban many info or other sites manualy just because they don't like something. Sedo is discriminating against info and more against biz. Search for a keyword; although your domain is listed there as exact match, it is not shown on the list. You need to click another link to see it. "something.com" already registered: so hire a broker to get it, although it is not listed on sedo as for sale. .biz is shown below .com.br

 

[topdom]

.info is not waste of time. .com may be more waste of time. Since we can't control search engine rankings, it is better to buy an easy to remember/spell premium domain to get marketing advantage; and such domains would be too expensive in .com, and affordable in other extensions. And .info is much more meaningful than "commerce".

 

[clasione]

I think .info is underrated. They seem to make much more sense to me than say, .net

 

[PKumar]

Actually, Google has given it low ranking due to spam, when .info was free lots of spammers registered and started spamming....

But .info is meaningful on the web.. for example

health.info
finance.info
cancer.info

Withing visiting the site, you would know the purpose, but .com, .net, .org may confuse as well......