.info is the 4th most popular root domain in the US

Or 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.

Re: .info is the 4th most popular root domain in the US

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Post by duskwuff » Mon, Oct 14, 2013, 9:47 PM UTC

TomGullen wrote: post #2

Here's the list I think: https://www.quantcast.com/top-sites

The 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.

Re: .info is the 4th most popular root domain in the US

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Post by natefriedman » Mon, Oct 14, 2013, 10:05 PM UTC

vezzy-fnord wrote: post #4

chc wrote: post #3

Surely this just speaks to the productivity of spammers.

Or 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.

I 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/). Global prevalence 1.17% vs 1.18% in the US.