Afilias,the company behind .INFO,announced recently that the 2011 .INFO Awards are now open for public voting.Afilias also announced the 10 .INFO nominees,which has been selected by a panel of distinguished judges .

“Today, with more than eight million domain names and millions of live sites, .INFO is synonymous with quality information on the Internet.The .INFO Awards let you show your support for this year’s nominees as well as giving you the opportunity to win this year’s hot ‘toy’: the Kindle Fire from Amazon,” said Roland LaPlante, Senior Vice President and CMO, Afilias.

Here are the 10 .INFO nominees :

www.docma.info
www.frauenundhiv.info (“Women and HIV”)
www.hotel.info
www.mailworx.info
www.opentype.info
www.solicitor.info
www.trafalgarsquare.info
www.typografie.info
www.visitwhitemountains.info
www.wien.info (“Vienna)

Dozens of sites were submitted from 17 countries for this year’s awards. Entry categories covered include personal websites (28 percent), business websites (27 percent), non-profit websites (15 percent) and blogs (10 percent). Awards judge Anand Parthasarathy said, “Some of the best sites this year come from non-profit organizations who have created compelling resources, sharply focused on the needs of a specific community of users.”

Public votes will be combined with the judges’ scores to select the top three winners, with first place being named the “Best .INFO website of 2011.” Award prizes are US$10,000 for the winner, US$5,000 for second place, and US$3,000 for third place. In conjunction with the announcement of the award winners, five voters will be chosen at random to receive an Amazon Kindle Fire tablet.Members of the public can vote for their favorite site at www.info-award.info now. Public voting will remain open until 11:59 p.m. UTC, Tuesday, December 13, 2011.

For more details check out Afilias.info