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.info is the 4th most popular root domain in the US
- TomGullen 13y agoHere's the list I think: https://www.quantcast.com/top-sites https://www.quantcast.com/top-sites
- duskwuff 13y agoThe first .info domain on that list is terere.info at position #1833, and which doesn't appear to even have anything on it. (Possibly it's an ad server or analytics domain.) Next one past that is helprx.info at #1926. Point is, .info is a very distant fourth to .com, .net, and .org.
- chc 13y agoSurely this just speaks to the productivity of spammers.
- vezzy-fnord 13y agoOr perhaps also because the .info TLD is frequently purchased as an alternative to the major three because of its relatively lower price and its rather generic purpose? I don't know about the USA in particular, but this holds true for Europe.
- natefriedman 13y agoI also looked at Alexa's ranking which has global scope and the prevalence of .info was pretty much the same as US (see http://natereport.com/2013/10/top-20-global-tlds/ http://natereport.com/2013/10/top-20-global-tlds/). Global prevalence 1.17% vs 1.18% in the US.