The .info domain is a vast wasteland
Published March 29, 2005 by Ed Bott
If you own a domain name in the .info space, you have associated yourself with a lot of sleaze merchants.
As a test, I set my server-side spam filters to divert all mail from any domain that ends in .info to a special folder. I’ve been keeping an eye on it, and after two weeks I can report that 100% of the mail in that folder (average of more than 10 messages a day) is worthless spam.
Does anyone know of any reputable domains in the .info space?
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I know of one .info domain that is reputable:
http://homenetworkhelp.info/
But, unfortunately, that’s the only one I can think of…
http://www.mta.info, for the NYC-metro transit authority
Given enough time I could possibly think of one or two (proxomitron.info maybe?), but you’re right, .info domains tend to be dominated by a lot of nastiness.
I saw an article ages ago that explains this more fully but can’t seem to find it right now, but here’s something on those lines: link. Basically they’re popular because there tends to be more of them available than .com and that the root nameservers for .info and .biz domains are updated in realtime, instead of once a day for .com and .net. Which means that if your site is shut down you can point the domain at another web server much more quickly.
Folk complain about span regularly.
I use hotmail and don’t get any spam.
Previously when my email was public knowledge in a msn community site, I got lots of spam.
I changed my email address, now I no longer list my addy publicly, I get no spam at all!
Also previously I was careless as to who I gave my email address. eg adult sites were regular offenders.
Perhaps hotmail is just better at filtering now. Anyhow, the results are what matters.
A relation friend of mine had spam problems.
Stopping spam was hopeless once it got a “foothold” on your email address.
She changed her email address and is more careful with whom she gives the address to. Now she gets no spam!
http://www.e-zpass.info is the site for the group that runs the E-ZPass interagency compact for electronic toll collection in a number of states in the northeast. Likely they needed this domain because http://www.ezpass.com was already taken by New Jersey’s E-ZPass site.
This site provides earnings call information.
This site is an investor relations resource.
I know of a domain called universitycenters.info — unfortunately, I know someone who works therea and has a need to send and receive emails with students whose email addresses are not in this domain but with private ISPs. Many outgoing mails get blocked, and the network admin’s advice is, tell the students to change their ISP! Do *that* many ISPs just block all .info emails? Is there any recourse if you’re stuck with a .info email address and you can’t communicate with an AOL account?