How bad is a .info domain name? People are telling me: "Don't buy, don't buy a dot info domain, Google doesn't like it." What do you think?
You do realise that many of your questions have answers in the form of information in Wikipedia? Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain for TLD information Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.info for .info information
Google is gTLD agnostic. There are over half as many .info pages in Google than .co.uk's (287,000,000) v (543,000,000) Which is quite an achievement for a newish (2001) gTLD. This chart compares the number of pages Google indexes for the new gTLDs and the "domainer" ccTLDs. www.chart.info/stats19.htm
It depends on what you want it for, if your creating a brand or serious website I would be looking at a .com, .info's are fine for many things, I have hundreds...
I think most people who pay attention associate .info with spam. I block all email from .info domains (envelope sender, return address, rdns, plus strong negative points for .info domains mentioned in message body) on the mail servers I run, and I would never click on an .info link because I have never encountered anything useful on one. I get the strong sense I am not the only one with this prejudice. It has served me well thus far.
sender / return address give little indication of intent these are usually faked ld There are good people using .com there are naughty people using .com There are good people using .biz there are naughty people using .biz There are good people using .info there are naughty people using .info TLD is not a good indicator of intent. Quite a few people "feel" .info and .biz are used more often than not for spamming. So lets look at an actual example - Looking at sites linked to in spams over 24hours. (The data is a few weeks old but a casual glance at todays shows much the same pattern) The top 100 by volume 94 .com's 5 .cn's 1 .tw's With regards sample size the top spammer had 1344 spams referencing the .com domain. Incidentally the .com's had a clean sweep of the top 24 most frequently used domains. So does this mean people who own .com are more likely to spam?
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Your analytical approach is faulty. What's interesting is the percentage of the .info emails that you DO receive which are spam. In my experience, it is 100%. So even if .info emails only make up a small share of all the messages I receive, filtering them out is a bulletproof way of reducing my spam load.
Yes, that's why I said I also look at the rdns and at the domains mentioned in the body of the email. If you are an unknown sender and you try to deliver an email to my server that mentions a .info URL, your MTA will receive an error and the connection will be dropped then and there. Nevertheless I do see a fair number of spam messages with .info return addresses (faked or otherwise, it doesn't matter). Then again, I have a higher sample size than most. I have been using the same email address for almost 20 years, so it's had time to get on every spam address list under the sun. Typically my personal mail server rejects upwards of 5,000 messages a day.
I hope you're never network admin for a company I do business with. My primary/personal email is .info. IE my last name.