.info .info is suitable for which languages?

[Truthman]

Hi!

I am just wondering in which languages the word .info is a common word? Or at least easily pronounceable?

Here are some:

English
Finnish
German
Italian
French

Look forward to hearing from you, I am especially interested in Asian languages.

Cheers,
Terje

 

[Spankey]

información in spanish, don't know if they also use the short form "info"

 

[henniemeijer]

Dutch-Netherlands

Info short for informatie(information), yet I cannot remember to have seen any use of the info extension
in The Netherlands, while it would look/sound a very logical extension to use in Dutch.

 

[kaposzta]

Hungarian people use "info" very often, it's easier to pronounce than "információ"

 

[dmoncu]

In Turkish information means "enformasyon" or "informasyon".
So .info domains also make sense and are pronounceable in Turkish, but they are not widely known among general public.

 

[bensd]

I read somewhere once that "info" meant the same thing in 70+ languages

 

[Jeffrey]

For the tagalogs in the Philippines it's INPO.

:D

 

[domainpf]

.info is in Asia not so popular
but in the other hand it is popular in Germany.

be sure only germanwords plus .info makes sense usually.

for example
Steuer(tax).info
Versicherung(Insurance).info
Privatversicherung(private insurance).info

 

[Truthman]

I created an interesting algorithm to calculate how common the word "INFO" is in various languages.

Here is how I did it:

1) Do a search for the term: "info" in a specific language using "advanced form on google:
http://www.google.com.au/advanced_search?hl=en
X = the number of times this term is found in the results

2) Then search for the term "1" in the same language.
Y = the number of time this term is found in the results.

3) Then divide the X by Y to find the concentration = Z

4) Then compare the the non-English Z to the Z for English.

Here is what I found:
In English Z = 13.63%

So relative to English here is what I calculate using my formula:

Language : Percentage of how common "info" is compared to English

Italian : 215%
German: 122%
Finnish: 85%
French : 76%
Hungarian: 67%
Spanish: 60%
Vietnamese: 60%
Japanese: 38%
Turkish: 33%
Chinese: 10%

So from the above results I could say in the Finnish language "Info" is about 85% as common as in English. And so on... And interestingly in Italian and German it seems "Info" is used more often than in English.

Anyway, I think the system might be flawed... I just tried using it for the Dutch language, and "info" was mentioned more times than "1" which is probably a glitch in google...

 

[aric]

I created an interesting algorithm to calculate how common the word "INFO" is in various languages.

Here is how I did it:

1) Do a search for the term: "info" in a specific language using "advanced form on google:
http://www.google.com.au/advanced_search?hl=en
X = the number of times this term is found in the results

2) Then search for the term "1" in the same language.
Y = the number of time this term is found in the results.

3) Then divide the X by Y to find the concentration = Z

4) Then compare the the non-English Z to the Z for English.

Here is what I found:
In English Z = 13.63%

So relative to English here is what I calculate using my formula:

Language : Percentage of how common "info" is compared to English

Italian : 215%
German: 122%
Finnish: 85%
French : 76%
Hungarian: 67%
Spanish: 60%
Vietnamese: 60%
Japanese: 38%
Turkish: 33%
Chinese: 10%

So from the above results I could say in the Finnish language "Info" is about 85% as common as in English. And so on... And interestingly in Italian and German it seems "Info" is used more often than in English.

Anyway, I think the system might be flawed... I just tried using it for the Dutch language, and "info" was mentioned more times than "1" which is probably a glitch in google...

Yes it's trou here in Italy the word info is very useful and suitable for a lot of situation

....but the extension it's no so common as the word....

 

[cobainer]

I created an interesting algorithm to calculate how common the word "INFO" is in various languages.

Here is how I did it:

1) Do a search for the term: "info" in a specific language using "advanced form on google:
http://www.google.com.au/advanced_search?hl=en
X = the number of times this term is found in the results

2) Then search for the term "1" in the same language.
Y = the number of time this term is found in the results.

3) Then divide the X by Y to find the concentration = Z

4) Then compare the the non-English Z to the Z for English.

Here is what I found:
In English Z = 13.63%

So relative to English here is what I calculate using my formula:

Language : Percentage of how common "info" is compared to English

Italian : 215%
German: 122%
Finnish: 85%
French : 76%
Hungarian: 67%
Spanish: 60%
Vietnamese: 60%
Japanese: 38%
Turkish: 33%
Chinese: 10%

So from the above results I could say in the Finnish language "Info" is about 85% as common as in English. And so on... And interestingly in Italian and German it seems "Info" is used more often than in English.

Anyway, I think the system might be flawed... I just tried using it for the Dutch language, and "info" was mentioned more times than "1" which is probably a glitch in google...

That's one neat algorithm you've got there!! :kickass:

 

[NathanJacob]

Yes it's trou here in Italy the word info is very useful and suitable for a lot of situation

....but the extension it's no so common as the word....

Thats really interesting man !!!

 

[muchacho]

Info is used quite often in Spanish.