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Username:	breeves
Date/Time:	Tue, January 22, 2002 at 3:57 AM GMT
Browser:	Microsoft Internet Explorer V5.5 using Windows 98
Subject:	What's up with .info ?
Message:
After much debate and patience, ICANN approved the release of the .INFO domain along with some others (.BIZ, .NAME, ...). It is looking more and more to me that the .info domain space will not take off as expected and will not become even remotely as popular as the well established and entrenched .Com.  According to Afilias, .info is approaching 1 million registrations.  But the number of registrations isn't the point.  Can you tell me of any major company that is marketing and using their brand as a .info site? Check it out for yourselves, put cnn.info , bbc.info, generalmotors.info into your browser and you'll get page not found.  Only dell.info goes somewhere, but it just points to dell.com.  The way I see it, is that unless some major company develops a .info site, .info will not take off.  Ask any of your friends who aren't into domain names, I'll bet not one of them will even heard of .info.  As for the spectulators, I bet most will just keep them, waiting for some company to buy them at a ridiculous price.  Only a few will get developed into sites, but they will just be of the mom and pop variety. I hate to be cynical, but the way I see it is that .info has a very long way to go before it gets established.  I personally don't see it happening, I don't think it will even approach the value of  .org or .net.  It's a shame, because .info really had some promise. Bill  Reeves

Message Thread:

• What's up with .info ? — breeves, January 22 @ 3:57 AM (4/19)
• It will take time — Cation, January 23 @ 11:13 PM (0/0)
• Most trademark dot infos will point to dot com — Garry Anderson, January 23 @ 8:35 AM (0/0)
• .info is stuck in limbo until the sunrise frauds get reallocated — spot2, January 22 @ 5:57 AM (2/3)
• Agree!!!! .info is the killer app in extensions!!! — moler, January 22 @ 12:32 AM (0/0)
• Um.....? — 410, January 22 @ 9:07 AM (1/1)
• correction — spot2, January 22 @ 10:28 AM (0/0)
• .INFO is still a youngin'... give it some time — ebiz, January 22 @ 4:50 AM (2/12)
• Agreed!!! Speculators like us are always 2 years ahead of big businesses ;-) — moler, January 22 @ 12:37 AM (1/1)
• Not really mole — Cation, January 25 @ 12:20 AM (0/0)
• good analysis spot2 and ebiz (410 = FW) and I wish to add — antipathy, January 22 @ 9:36 AM (2/9)
• FW? — 410, January 24 @ 3:20 AM (1/2)
• 410 you may be right, but you are still a f*ck wit - regards — antipathy, January 24 @ 9:43 AM (1/1)
• Oh, please — 410, January 26 @ 1:04 AM (0/0)
• 410 — nicholasbernstein, January 22 @ 12:40 AM (1/5)
• Well.... — 410, January 24 @ 3:18 AM (2/4)
• 410, we agree one one thing - the evident corruption of ICANN — antipathy, January 24 @ 9:45 AM (0/0)
• .web and open TLDs — Garry Anderson, January 24 @ 9:28 AM (1/2)
• Gary — nicholasbernstein, January 24 @ 9:44 AM (1/1)
• We agree on what is an OPEN TLD — Garry Anderson, January 24 @ 10:41 AM (0/0)

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