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.name, .info, .us TLDs - anyone use them
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with virtually all dictionary words and various combinations already taken, what do you think of the other lessor popular TLDs such as .name, .info, and .us (yes, there's other too).
I've really not seen too many .name/.info domains while I have seen some .us and .biz and smattering of .tv.
Any thoughts on these less popular domains?
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I have seen .us and .tv. If I get a domain name, I don't feel like using those.
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my personal site is on omgponi.es -- spain.
you really need .com if you're doing anything serious though
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Country codes are a different animal all together but I agree with Erik. info, name TLDs seem fairly useless.
I noticed a while back that the .us domain has a wrinkle that the others don't. You cannot use a privacy proxy setting so your whois information is out there for everyone to see. I think this may slow the adoption of .us domains. Our private information is already to public as it is, and having name address, phone number and email out there for everyone to see is a little ridicules. Yes I'm also aware most people don't put their actual name/phone number/address on those. That makes sense also.
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The only popular domains I can think of are del.icio.us and twit.tv
My own is a .com
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The seem quite useless for some things. The whole .com .org and .net threesome set is kind of engrained into most people's minds. At least in the western world. I've always shot for .com addresses and recommend to my friends that they try and buy .com addresses. Even for their own personal webpages.
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Most public schools use the .us TLD, so that one is fairly important. I'm seeing more .info, but I don't care much about .name.
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"Yields a falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields a falsehood when preceded by its quotation.
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Originally Posted by Oneota 
Most public schools use the .us TLD
why not .edu?
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Originally Posted by MacosNerd
why not .edu?
Those are reserved for higher-ed. Public K-12 schools can't use them.
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"Yields a falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields a falsehood when preceded by its quotation.
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I own a .name domain and use it exclusively for an email address with family and close friends. The great advantage of it is truly zero spam. A lot of commercial places cannot even handle a 4 letter domain extension, and it seems a lot of bot mailers can't either. I use a .com domain address for my email to those outside of the circle of family and close friends. A .name domain is nice and obscure - flies under a lot of radars on the net.
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Originally Posted by Oneota
Most public schools use the .us TLD, so that one is fairly important. I'm seeing more .info, but I don't care much about .name.
Most public K-12 are k12.statecode.us ( www.school.k12.ca.us for California.)
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90% of the time, anything other than .org, .net, or .com is just so businesses have to pay more money to stick their name on it.
That's why they always hold those "public" auctions (it's really just the big businesses) whenever they come up with a useless new TLD. All that happens is Microsoft pays money to own the .info, .pro, .name, .mobi, etc. in addition to the .com, .net, and .org. Same with every other company.
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
Yeah. That's the .us TLD (note how it ends in ".us").
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"Yields a falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields a falsehood when preceded by its quotation.
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Originally Posted by Oneota
Yeah. That's the .us TLD (note how it ends in ".us").
I was clarifying to other people who might've thought that they only end in .us.
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