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None of the original top-level domains are really appropriate for a site like Less Wrong; .net was originally intended for Internet service providers and other organizations related to Internet infrastructure. In the mid 1980s (before there were such things as web sites) it wasn’t really envisaged that people would want to register domains named for specific topics rather than the organization that owned the servers. .info was supposed to fill that gap but due to mismanagement and perverse incentives it ended up being more associated with viagra and fake rolexes than with information.