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mantra
12-12-2001, 06:10 PM
How are the .biz and .info domain names doing?

Anyone actually visit any sites with those extensions?

Anyone own any .biz or .info domains? .. Please feel free to list them.

Thanks.

akashik
12-12-2001, 06:17 PM
Funny enough I hadn't even thought about it till now, but no, I don't think I've been to a single biz or info domain yet. Hmm, maybe there was an info one a while back.

Still it's very early days for those extensions. Compared to the millions of .com/org/net's it'll take a while before they start to show up I would imagine.

Err, and no, don't own any of them, nor plan to :)

Greg Moore

addaction
12-12-2001, 06:39 PM
No haven't seen one. I guess most .info or .biz domains are registered by the owners of the same domain with the .com or .net extension.

I find it rather confusing for visitors if you have an .info or somebody else his .com. Many visitors won't realize this and will be ending up at the .com site.

davidb
12-12-2001, 07:00 PM
I never even thought about it tell now, but no I dont think I have been to one eather.

netsolutions
12-12-2001, 07:52 PM
What about the .ws domains? If those ever become big I'm a millionair ;)

2Grumpy
12-12-2001, 09:35 PM
I've sold 1 .biz (and host it) and I host another .info

The .biz took an aggravting long time to propagate (Thursday registered, Tuesday began propagating). Dunno if this a .biz/.info thing or just bad luck on that particular registration.

Don't own any myself.

Pilgrim
12-12-2001, 09:42 PM
Registered about 8 or so .info names. 0 .biz
.info seems slightly more popular then org but .com is still the number one in the world by far.

Fred
12-13-2001, 01:03 AM
.TV seems to be picking up speed with TV stations now...

MarcD
12-13-2001, 04:49 AM
dont know if i think i have been to 1 .info and my first .ws yesterday i remembe thinking .ws what is this chit

and always think lol they coulnt find themselves a .com .net or .org huh

spcover
12-13-2001, 11:18 AM
The New York Metropolitan Transit Authority, which is in charge of all the trains and buses here in New York City, has a new URL - mta.info.

That is the only .info URL I see in use so far.

I own a couple of .info, .biz, and .tv. domains - mainly just to keep them out of the hands of competitors (I operate several regional news websites).

Sean

JustinK
12-13-2001, 02:12 PM
I haven't been to a single .biz or .info site. I've gone to one .ws site (worldsite.ws) only to look at the price of the domain I wanted, laugh heavily, and then return to browsing through .com/net/org domains.

DynamiteD
12-13-2001, 02:26 PM
I went to a .FM, space.fm

fantastic web streaming dance tunes..... thats a domain to remember!