I think mandatory is never good, even if in some cases to make possible the live
in this crazy world we have to make impositions. But I do not think that will work
in info sites. Firstly, because the people owning info sites what they want, like
anybody, is freedom of movement. Second because they are looking for the better place
where they could be found by others, and making it mandatory will mean that you will
be missing out many interesting sites, and so your directory wont look so attractive
for them. In fact, I am thinking about the better ones, those sites about big companies
o medias that are still not active but soon will be. It is very unlikely that they
will accept this kind of impositions.My point of view is that until .info will
not became the reference to find information on any subject, people will still go
to major .info search engines and directories to find sites. We have to remember
that users does not care at all about which is the extension of the site they are
visiting, what they want is to find the better information in the quicker way possible.
But
still, your idea have to proof it validity by its own. Users will be the real judgement
for you and may be you will find that, in fact, it was a great idea to make it mandatory,
so follow your intuitions as much as possible, but listen always to the users. They
decide what anything finally is.
It won't be a bad idea, following your point,
if you will introduce links in your home page to the other info directories that
are already live or that will soon be, like those directories are doing already with
you (DomeBase.com and Economia.info). 411directory will be also soon live and I suppose
will also do the same.
To finish, I have to tell to all of you that I am sorting
all the addresses from DomeBase into my directory categories (1000 thanks to him),
a major update is expected next week. Also, I have introduced in the directory
a recompilation of all the commentaries that are appearing in this forum about .info
directories since de beginning, son any body would be able to find out the whole
information without having to go checking all the messages in the forum. The direct
address those news is:
http://www.galeon.com/economia-info/InfoDirectory/directorynews.html
Good
luck with your project DoInfoSearchEngine, it is very well done.
Christian Castresana
Economia.info
(.info Directory)
cris.tian@teleline.es
Barcelona (Spain)
http://www.economia.info
http://www.galeon.com/economia-info/InfoDirectory/infodirectory.html
(Sorry if the is any spelling or sentence construction mistakes, I am
Spanish.)