Israel - 8:43 am on May 27, 2007 (gmt 0)

Perhaps spiders are giving them a penalty, but it looks just as legit in a PPC campaign or link on a page as any other .tld to the average consumer.

I think of the handful that I have as being the only domain tlds that actually have a useful word in them.

JMHO:
widget.info - there you go, says Joe or Jane Surfer, information about widgets finally!

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