thewitt
02-15-2002, 11:09 AM
The February 4th issue of NetworkWorld had a nice article on the growth and recent surge of dot-info domains.
There has been a noticable rise in registrations recently, however I'm not sure that anyone is actually using them in a website.
Those of you who are webhosts, please answer this poll. Are .info domains actually becoming websites in your experience, or are people simply buying them to protect their name branding?
-t
Walter
02-15-2002, 11:13 AM
We host some. As far as I can tell I would say 60% to protect the name of the customer, 40% because they didn't get a decent .com.
AussieHosts
02-15-2002, 11:14 AM
We're selling/hosting them. I don't know of one yet that has been to protective another domain.
Cheers
Gary
Incognito
02-15-2002, 08:44 PM
They are great for informational sites and information is a large part of the interest in the internet. So, we use them for what they are designed.
Chicken
02-16-2002, 12:08 AM
I bought my first one today, we'll see if I like it before I get any others...
WCSWEB
02-16-2002, 01:12 AM
I think its going to be a doom! .info is too long :(
Willy
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Walter
02-16-2002, 03:52 AM
Originally posted by Chicken
I bought my first one today, we'll see if I like it before I get any others...
OT: chicken.info? Or one for your little baby, mcnugget.info? How is he doing?
hostjet
02-16-2002, 04:15 AM
i registered a handful, mainly ones that contained highly searched keywords where the .com .net and .org were all taken.
Search engines are a good source of traffic, so I think there is a place for .info names which contain good searchwords in them.
Although you would be driving a lot of free traffic to the owner of the .com
Also .info implies that you are a new starter without much of a history, but all of that will change in time.
Chicken
02-16-2002, 01:04 PM
Originally posted by Walter
OT: chicken.info? Or one for your little baby, mcnugget.info? How is he doing?
McNugget is good, heh. Grandparents coming in from East to see him. The domain is piro.info (yikes! I just typed piro.com and had to backspace, I already don't like it), and the reason is a bit stupid, but...
s h @ p i r o . i n f o
I usually register names and don't use them. I should really just post an ad and get rid of them all, heh. But I love all of them!!! :bawling:
Walter
02-16-2002, 01:07 PM
piro.info doesn't resolve for me, is it brand new?
Chicken
02-16-2002, 04:16 PM
Yup, brand new... I haven't set it up on the server yet.
