Talk:.info

Asterisks suggest possible copyright volation. Andy Mabbett 17:42, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I don't think so. I can't find a source using Google anyway. Nor for the similar .coop by the same editor. Both articles need a lot of work, however. --Zundark 17:59, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Incoherent

I reverted edits by User:Mononoke, removing this incoherent section called Law & Domains:

• In January 2005 a French Court Cour D´ Appel de Paris convicted a German owner of the domain www.afp.info to hand over to the Agence France Press and pay up to 2000 Euro for publishing this news. The domain was registered in Germany for the Agency for Private Schools belonging to the domain's owner through the company Afilias Limited situated in Dublin, Ireland. Heise News

Someone with some knowledge of the subject might want to make sense of that and rewrite it.

Spam

I like to Google a lot, and when I do, I sometimes run into spam sites ending with .info. Should someone write about how this also is used by spammers?64.233.166.136 02:18, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Alot of spammers also use fake? email from the .info domain such as

bexoit@kuzmail.info

Content on .info domain continues to be a problem. 99.75% of all blogs hosted on these domains are spam. In other words 1.65 Million blogs were spam as opposed to only around 4K authentic blogs!(2007 splogosphere study) This certainly deserves mentioning. .info is lost to spammers, nobody uses it for real sites anymore.--87.162.4.135 (talk) 02:21, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

And what's the percentage of spammers in other top level domains? Is .info better or worse on that account? *Dan T.* (talk) 02:34, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

It's popular with spammers because it's cheaper to register than others. 86.148.178.105 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 16:07, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

What Unix V6 Linux people are talking about? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.10.28.161 (talk) 08:59, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

This is personal research, so it can't go in the article. But: about 30% of my spam email over the last several months comes from .info email addresses. Typically I get two emails, one right after the other, from the same email domain (not necessarily the same "person"), and then (afaict) I never get any more spam emails from that .info domain. For awhile I was putting these domains in my spam filter so I wouldn't see them, but I gave up on that when I realized there were only ever two from a given domain. I wonder if there's a citeable story on that? Maybe the ebiquity source mentioned above? 100.36.60.54 (talk) 20:16, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

@64.233.166.136 Marthatak (talk) 11:12, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

Dead link

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

• http://www.afilias.info/register/idn/
  • In .info on 2011-05-20 21:43:12, 404 Not Found
  • In .info on 2011-05-31 14:58:08, 404 Not Found

--JeffGBot (talk) 14:58, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Dead link 2

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!

• http://www.afilias.info/register/find/
  • In .info on 2011-05-20 21:43:12, 404 Not Found
  • In .info on 2011-05-31 14:58:39, 404 Not Found

--JeffGBot (talk) 14:58, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

lifelock

liflock wants me to spend another $600. i cannot afford that kind of money. does mcafee do the same as lifelock an d would it be alot cheaper????? 45.18.9.127 (talk) 00:29, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a complaint site. Kmtvfan (talk) 00:29, 17 December 2023 (UTC)