.INFO continues to grow and, according to Afilias, is the number one new gTLD however it is the sixth largest TLD behind .COM, .DE, .NET, .UK and .ORG with more than 6.8 million domain name registrations according to the latest VeriSign Domain Name Industry Brief or seventh largest according to the registry itself. Afilias is the largest of the new TLDs with approximately 44 per cent of the entire new TLD registration market and being more than double the size of any other new TLD

The top three .INFO sites (clockwise starting at top left) are klimaretter.info, glutenfreehelp.info, and Greentravelclub.info. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Afilias ( www.afilias.info ), the operator of the .info registry, has named Greentravelclub.info ( www.greentravelclub.info ) the winner of its 2010 .INFO Awards Program, designed to highlighted some of the best .INFO sites of 2010 and award them cash prizes totaling more than $15,000. According to the Internet infrastructure provider’s Monday announcement, Greentravelclub, a portal site that lets visitors search for eco-friendly hotels while traveling throughout Europe, was named the top .INFO site for 2010.

The top three .INFO sites (clockwise starting at top left) are klimaretter.info, glutenfreehelp.info, and Greentravelclub.info. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Afilias ( www.afilias.info ), the operator of the .info registry, has named Greentravelclub.info ( www.greentravelclub.info ) the winner of its 2010 .INFO Awards Program, designed to highlighted some of the best .INFO sites of 2010 and award them cash prizes totaling more than $15,000

Top 10 nominees for the .INFO Awards are revealed DUBLIN, IRELAND – 5 October 2010- Today, Afilias, a global provider of Internet infrastructure services and the registry operator for the .INFO top-level domain (TLD), announced that the 2010 .INFO Awards is now open for public vote .

In a video introduction, Affilias chief marketing officer Roland LaPlante explains the significance of the .INFO domain DNSSEC rollout. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Internet infrastructure services provider Afilias ( www.afilias.info ) has enabled Domain Name System Security Extensions for the .INFO top-level domain, enhancing global security for more than 6.5 million registered domains, making it the seventh largest TLD in the world. According to Afilias’ announcement this week, .INFO was officially signed on September 1, 2010 and its Delegation Signer records were entered into the DNS root by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ( www.iana.org ) on September 4, allowing the .INFO zone to be validated using DNSSEC.