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I want to take a domain on my name. But .Com is already taken. .Info doamin is still available, and its very cheap also. I am just wondering whether I can take a .info domain or these domain are only for products, companies etc. Would you advise me too take vaibhavjain.info as a domain for publishing personal information. and one more question, why .info domain names are cheap than other domain names.

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.com stands for commercial, so if you don't have any reservations there, you shouldn't have about .info. – Daniel Beck Feb 19 '11 at 6:13
If it's your own name, why not go for .name? – TRiG Jul 27 '11 at 13:39
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.info is a relatively new top level domain so it means that there'll still be a lot of useful names free, though the Wikipedia entry states it's been one one of the more successful ones:

The .info domain has been the most successful of the seven new domain names, with over 5.2 million domain names in the registry as of April 2008.

Now this success might be because they're relatively cheap at the moment. The entry also states:

.info is an unrestricted domain, meaning that anyone can obtain a second-level domain under .info for any purpose, similar to the .com, .net or .org domains. This is in contrast to TLDs such as .edu or .coop. Info is the only top-level domain that was explicitly created and chartered for unrestricted use.

So yes go for "vaibhavjain.info".

As for why they're cheaper than the others, I don't know. You'd have to ask the domain resellers that one I think.

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Thanks, would go for .info – Vaibhav Dec 6 '09 at 14:11
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There are hardly any domain that have rules on who can register and even the ones that do will probably only remove you if someone complains.

That being said, .info as far as I know is open to anyone who wants to register with no rules on who can.

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