I have been wondering this for some time and never once have i ever had a valid answer and not some guy who says oh .info is no good with an explanation. over 20 times i have pulled people who have said this to get back nothing but abuse and nothing else to back themselves up with their comments As far as i am concerned right now .info is not all that bad as people make out why ? because evey time i call people out on why they say its no good they can never give an answer thats valid. so lets see if anyone can add to this thread with a carefully and intellctually thought out post regarding why .info is not any good. reasons so far have been 1. not any good for seo why ? i have ranked .info sites so whats the problem there 2. google takes precidence over .info sites with .com etc maybe maybe not prove it do you work for google ? keyworded domain with original content and solid relevent links means google will take notice of your site whether its .com or .info i dont really see a problem here either 3..info is 4 letters .com is three this is a classic lol oh really this makes my sides hurt wwat you cant rank a .info because its one letter longer than .com ? or people worry about typing that one more letter so wont vist your site cmon seriously ? that means .tv etc must be the ultimate extensions to own over .com is it all just a myth dreamed up by rumours tbh i am starting to think so not looking for an arguement here i am genuinely interested and looking forward to some decent answers
i also have.info domain that i've been trying to rank - so i wanted to hear what people really think about it. they also said that .info is associated as spam just because .info is cheap but i see lots of .info sites are pretty useful - prchecker.info for example.
only reason its associated with spam is because its cheap to get hold of right now and people will use it for the year and then drop it l or if google ban it its not a great loss at the price ,info domains you are seriously going to use register for 2+ year problem solved
Do you really think google is stupid enough to penalize an extension because it's associated with spam. Use common sense people.
so so far we have comments saying about some good .info domains surely that destroys the myth about seo ? if seo was a problem these sites would not do well ? the spam issue in my eyes is not a major problem by registering longer term you combat any problems with it if there really is a problem in googles eyes if .info was seen as spam sites then not one site would do well maybe gave it a bad name amongst webmasters/domainers but i dont think it stretches any further than this. penalising a whole extension bescause a few people use it for spam etc is never going to happen as dcristo has said just my thoughts
just like everyone said .info and .com shares the same weight with googles algo. the only thing they said that .info are not good is that if your intentions is to just take advantage of its cheap price and use it as spam. nevertheless if you are going to have good intentions with using .info as your domain address there would be no problem at all. google knows whats the difference between a spam link or not.
Well said ian. People prefer to drop the .infos just because their renewal price is almost 3 times the registration fees. When you think from neutral view, '.info' sounds much better than '.com' ('.com' doesn't make any sense at all). People use internet to get information, so ".info" should have been the best extension.
the reason i started this thread was because i know .info is not as bad as people are saying the comments on appraisals are ridiculous and all these guys are only saying what they themselves have heard elsewhere from another misinformed person on another forum or thread if i listened to ever person on this forum and other forums i would never had made the good amounts of cash that i have made over the years. i was hoping for someone to post that believes that .info is no good and come up with something to back the claims but tbh i dont think that will happen,over 20 times i have challenged guys on forums to back it up and not once have they been able to do so. lol all you get back is an abusive childish comment in return which tells me they dont have clue what they are doing or saying. up to now this is my view but i am open and really want someone to come in with a valid point to make not looking for an arguement out of it just opinions and this is mine
you have ranked .info sites? so back your statement, please show us your ranked sites. well, .tv is expensive and you don't see many spam sites with .tv sites main reason is that there are many .info spam sites and have earned a bad reputation. when i see a .info result in a google search page, i usually don't bother visiting it! If you take a normal internet user, after seeing one, two, three .info sites and when they are all spam, more chances he would not visit a .info thereafte. because people hate spam, malware sites
i do not own any .info sites that are develloped right now otherwise i would sites i have had in the past are just that in the past and i wont be mentioning anything here as i dont own them. i am not here to prove what i have done read through the thread again i am looking for others views and comments on why .info is said to be no good and back it up so far only the spam issue has been talked about which is not a problem in my eyes to ranking a site thats what this thread is about
.mobi .info .jobs .name .edu .pro .int .biz .gov .asia .arpa .coop .travel .tel .museum .aero .cat All these are just useless extensions for registrars to get more money out of you. What's next ? .ink .tld .corp .web .blog .www .3d .world .dog .pig ..? Do we need more of these made up TLDs ?
I also think this is a perception issue and honestly, one of the best (easiest) ways to cure it is to charge same money at the registrar for dot-info's as the other TLD's i think that issue gets resolved within a year of that. Godaddy offering 'FREE .INFO' with a dot-com does nothing to give the dot-info any additional value and does nothing but help to cheapen it in everybody's eyes. GD marketing and offering is in the hopes most will forget to turn off auto-renew and bill you for two domain names over the years - smart marketing, but cheapens the product. My own 3dDomainNames.info ranks quite nicely for many targeted terms and even ahead of some other good names, so i at this point, i can say i HAVE seen it work pretty nicely. As RD mentioned, the dot-info - AT TIMES - even sounds better than the dot-com... this era was dubbed 'The Information Era' for a reason .. the internet... what better extension to offer than ... yup .. 'Information' It is what it is though and WHY that is what you're trying to change, so hats off to you Iain for the thread. It will be interesting to hear some actual data results and some form of google proof (if there IS any) proving dot-info names to be as good, better or worse than the dot-coms .. this is just one man's opinion
well structered post nice example that site is not that old and is ranked for a few keywords nice work on your part
This is the reason why i prefer ccTLDs over gTLDs: With gTLD, any registrar can create a made-up dot something for the buck while ccTLD, it's all about the popularity of a country or it's meaning. I'll rather have .CO .US .CN .CA .TV .IN .JP .KR .RU ...ect Then a DOT made-up english word. IMO