I also don't like .info domains. People are doing spamming by reg. .info domains as they are very cheaper and they are making MFA sites on the same.
Everybody would buy .com domain if they where available.. but most of useful .com domains are taken... and a lot of .net and .org domains has a similar problem... .com rules! And for all the others... does it realy matter? .net? .org? .info? Price difference is only few $... Normal users don't know what URL means. Lots of users even inserts url address in search bar in google....
Yeah I think the free give-aways of .info domains really tarnished the reputation amongst webmasters. I'm not if a regular joe would mind as long as they find what they are looking for ....
well it depends on what your target niche is i believe.. but is it was worldwide ide go for .com if ot a .co.uk