.info worth anything?

I'm thinking about starting a site that recommends products for a particular industry.

The obvious .com domain is taken but .info is still available. Are .info's worth the effort or should I resort to a 2-word .com domain?

 

I would take a 2-word .com domain, I went into this question myself a couple of days ago and decided that people will remember a .com domain more than a .info. I would take the .info domain only additionally.

 

I have lots of .info domains. Some for some very busy and serious sites. I'm fine with them. People have gotten used to the variety of top levels as well as the country level ones. I would rather have a memorable name than having to compromise into a two word effort.

 

Info if it contains the keyword(s) for your product or industry.

 

Thanks guys for all the advice. I think I'll do both initially and redirect to the one with more natural traffic.

 

If it makes sense to use .info then for sure. Funds.info recently sold for something like 22k which has to say something.

 

I think .info worth, they have traffic some time too!

 

if u r providing information about some products, then go get it.
Its the keyword tht matters most, ppl can get used to extensions, if uve got a real good site.
heck, i kno ppl remember sites with .tk extension to, .info is far much better than that

 

I really believe it's the quality of the site content and not the domain name that matters. Having said this, I did have difficulty selling .info domains at a good price (if you're into selling)...

 

.info domains are new. just started few months back. mainstream TLD have always good backend infrastructure. normally a overhead of arround 300ms is added (this does not include latency of name server) for every lookup of .info domain. this overhead is because of extra lookups are required to find parent name servers.
normally for .com, .net or .org this overhead only 10 -20 ms

 

Dude you have lost me... wat does that have to do with the perceived value of the .info extension?

 

i believe u had a hard time, coz ppl still think tht infos are way too cheap, they costed just about 2$ a few days back, now that the promotional offers have ended, their prices are at par with other extensions at $5+
.info will never match upto .com, but theyve got huge potential, and i see the market for infos booming mid-06, atleast i hope so..lol
after all internet is COMmerce, INFOrmation and NETworking

 

this is technical point of view. it does not count what ever subject site build on, whatever content you put. i was explaining time required to lookup a info domain. this is very crutial factor for the speed benchmark of site.