are .INFO domains going to be second fiddle to .COM soon

Totally agree. In my experience people do care about the info extension (I mean ordinary people, not web developers/site flippers and the like). If you try to sell something on an info, this raises red flags. But an info is great to provide travel guides or buying advice.

 

I own several .INFO sites and they rank very high for my chosen keywords. I have heard all the rhetoric that the search engines will automatically consider .INFO spam sites, but my experience has been to the contrary. I think the SEs realize all of the good .COM names are taken and reputable webmasters are going after catchy domain names, regardless of the TLD.

Good luck!

 

Much agreed and as a developer I try to steer clients in the proper TLD realm but of course capturing as many, if not all available tld's.

.INFO is great for exactly that = INFORMATION sites... etc...

Spammers have gone after it because it's a cheap TLD... but the quality .info sites will keep it going...

We'll see on this one... Interesting thread though...

 

if the renewal price remains low like first year price (less than $2 at some registrars), it may be....