linklists and .info domains
 

hi, can somebody tell me if some linklists would not list me because i submit freesite which is on a .info domain?

Yes, .info is banned.

At some places but not that much

.info means that at least two other people came up with that domain name before you did. I wish there was nothing other than .com. That way you wouldn't have to worry about copycat domains as much. That being said, I'm still in begging phase, so I don't currently ban .info domains. I don't like them, but I don't have a ban.

All fucking week long someone has been adding crap link trades off of a .info domain. All the same person, all complete crap, been banning them each day and the next day there is a bunch more in there.

This pretty much sums up what I see on .info domains.

.info domains are banned at all of my stuff.

Unless I know them .info & .biz don't get listed here.

.us is almost as bad as .info domains.

.info. us. biz
All banned unless I've sleep with the person

So we guys can't submit .info domains? |couch|

cleo, if you are female and good looking i'll sleep with you ;-)

Don't even get me started on .biz! What the hell was the point of that one? Someone sat around thinking of cheezy ways to clone .com and that's all they could come up with.

Why isn't there a .cheater yet?

If the submits are good and you don't cheat, i list .info sites.

I'm with Lowry on this one (love the nic btw Lowry...lol!).

I've got a handful of .biz domains myself...I paid and still pay the same amount for those as I do for my .com's at renewal time.

As long as they submit quality sites and don't screw with me...don't really care if it's .biz or .info or .whatever :)

The ban on .info and .biz domains spawns from the activities that makes everyone leery of Choopa, HQ Host, and EstDomains. There's no guarantee that a domain bought at Est is owned by a cheater, but you ban it anyway because history has shown an unusually high percentage of cheating by those domains. So, I certainly understand why the big lists who have been dealing with this shit for a long time do what they do.

Again, I still accept .infos, but if the whois shows that it's been purchased at Est and/or is hosted by either of the the two hosts above, it's blacklisted. Two strikes - you're out.

so, in order to be listed everywhere without problems, i better only use a .com domain...

I see that I didn't answer the question :)

I haven't banned .info domains. But if there's anything that looks questionable, I rather click reject than accept.

Would you care to elaborate?

I don't list any "off brand" .anythings... There are plenty of good .com domains still out there, why are you using oddball stuff? Many of the country / speciality domains do not allow for porn, or require that the domain is owned by someone from that country.

I list sites because I think they are going to be around for a while. I have no faith that .whatever will actually have an active site on it tomorrow.

Alex

Certainly understandable Alex...but would it make any difference if the submission was from someone you knew well...and knew was serious about the business?

I don't think that there are many cheaters using Choopa nowdays.
There are much cheaper hosts that they use.

To me all submissions without a .com or .net are not professional so I don't list them.

MrYum, for some of those extensions, the exclusion is automatic (done by a bot) others are still manual. The only exceptions at this point are the very few prefered submitters that I have on my sites (they bypass certain bot functions). The percentage of .info domains that died in a 6 month period made it impossible for me to support them. Now that I restrict submissions per day, I cannot allow submissions I won't accept to crowd up the submit line.

It's not a comment on anyone's business intentions or goals, but rather a sad comment on what some other people will do to make money.

Alex

Yea Alex, I can certainly understand why you've had to implement such measures |thumb

Damn, knew I should've gotten on your preferred list long ago! :D

Agreed, it really is a sad comment on the actions of some unscrupulous assholes. Whether it be spamming, scamming or just plain ol cheating...they are out there...and they need to be bitch slapped |angry|

mryum my prefered list might open soon a little bit, I am seriously considering approved submitters only like many other lists. It's getting hard to keep setting up filters to get rid of the scammers.

thankfully, when I run my existing site bot, I am not having to kill off very many sites... things seem more stable now.

Alex

I accept all toplevel domain names as far as any rule is beeing broken

but of course: .com is the best way to go - recommend all to purchase .com names ;)

ok, obviously when i want to get listed EVERYWHERE, i shouldn't use a .info domain. What about .net? It seems to be safer, but is it as safe as .com?

As a link list owner I would be stupid not to accept quality free site just because it is from the domain other then .com

As a free site submitter I would be stupid to use other domain then .com for my free sites and risk not to be listed.

So Fido, does that make me stupid? ;)

Alex

Mathematician would tell you that the sentences above do not make anyone (but me) stupid ;)

I wasn't sure. I am stupid like that sometimes.

Alex

LOL! Nice recovery Fido! |thumb

Sweet! Other than the fact that today was smokin hot for sales...that's the best news I've heard all day :D

If I got to approved submitters only, the .info restrictions won't apply for those people. But that isn't a today thing... ;-)

Alex

Actually, I don't own any .info domains. Frankly, that one just sounded kinda silly to me :D

I do have a handful of .biz, a few .net, one or two, .orrrrrg, and a bunch o .coms :D