Originally posted by kjohar
Personally, I don't think .biz and .info stand a viable chance in the long run. The extensions not as generic as .com, and if you've read the recent study by Harvard, it is quite evident that most .biz and .info domains have been hoarded merely for speculation purposes.......without any tangible development
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/tlds/001/
If there is to be a competitor of .com, it will either be .us, as .ca is in Canada......or possibly a reincarnation of .web, if that ever comes to pass.
True har, most of the best domains were creamed off by speculators. Buydomains alone creamed off nearly 5,000 of those .biz critters.
media.info is still locked after a year it was first released. 17,000 of the best .info names were only released just over a month ago. And an estimated 5,000, many prime .info names, still remain in fraud status.
The 'Harvard' review covers only .biz, but we all know the best .biz names were only released sometime March this year because of a guy called Smiley who wanted radio.biz and didn't think he could get it because he had no money to play the lottery.
.info and .biz haven't even started to taxi on the runway IMO.
Whatever it is, there will be, already is, good respectable sites that take off exclusively with the .info and .biz badge.
http://www.sotd.info for example. .info and .biz took 17 years in the coming after .com. It is reasonable then to give them 1.7 years to grow up.