TLD stands for Top Level Domain. Examples of TLDs are .com, .org, and .net.
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Can I fulfill the Catalan requirement for .cat by offering it as a language option? [closed]
I plan to make a portfolio site for someone, and a very ideal name would be ****.cat. I have checked, and it is available.
Now the thing is, .cat requires to be related somehow to Catalan. More ...
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How Google value .in/.info domains currently?
As .info domain price increased, how much Google value .info domain now? Also .in domain is now cost less then .info (for first year).
Is Google going to less value .in domain now? I have couple of ...
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Website with same content but different tlds
We have two sites:
example.com
example.co.uk
Both point to the same IP and files.
Is it better SEO practice to direct the user's from example.co.uk to example.com?
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How do companies fake a domain registration date? [closed]
On a few separate occasions I have lost prominent domains to the scourge known as cyber-squatters. They've even snatched up a domain within 5 minutes of checking availability.
One domain in ...
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How can I buy my own personalized Top Level Domain TLD?
Starting frOm tomorrow January/12/2012 I heard it's possible to apply for your own TLD i.e. .whatever in place of .com .org etc.
I thought it would be something required a huge amount of money, and ...
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Domains with no name servers?
I have a few ccTLDs (.my) domains and I've just realised that there is no name servers for them at all. I wonder how that is even possible? Did the vendor whom I bought the domains from do something ...
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Pointing .co.uk, .org & .info to main .com domain
I have a client who has multiple domains .co.uk, .org and .info and would like to point them to the main .com domain name.
They have changed the nameservers of the .co.uk, .org and .info domains.
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Buying a top level domain specific to my industry, will it improve my seo ratings?
Currently we run a few websites selling products in the travel industry using .com and .co.uk extensions.
Would our search rating improve if we were to buy one of the .travel domains ? So we would ...
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SEO + international sites? country.domain.com or domain.country?
is it better to have seperate country specific domains (which costs more money) or subdomains which define the country, for better SEO?
eg.
stackoverflow.com
stackoverflow.com.au
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Is there a significant hit to a non .com TLDs exact match domain (EMD) names after Google's Panda update? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does server location or TLD affects SEO
In this article, there is a good overview of exact match domain names and how they affect SEO after Google's Panda update.
The ...
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Economical DNS hosting separate from local registrar for country specific TLDs - email or web hosting not required
Our company owns many country specific top level domains (TLDs; .sg, .my). We will purchase more for other countries in all South East Asia.
These domains are associated with our websites hosted on ...
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Is it better to have multiple domains for cities or one single TLD?
I make websites for small businesses, and for some reason business owners love to have several domains with the same website but the TLD containing the city name.
For example:
1. smallbizname.com
2. ...
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SEO consequences for merging country sites in a .com
I am in the process of refactoring a number of rental portals I've built for a company with locations in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.
Instead of the current setting of each ...
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reasonably priced registrar for obscure tlds like .tt [closed]
I'm looking to buy a .tt domain name, however the only registrars I can find want from between $500 to $3000 for one domain. Considering I can buy a .com for around $10 a year, I consider that not ...
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Domain name - exampleapp.com or example.at [closed]
I'm working on a networking app and I need to register a domain name. The .com and all other well known domain extension of my apps name are taken.
Should I go with ExampleApp.com or some other tld ...
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What is a “Public DNS registered IP address”?
I've been reading this ICANN agreement on new TLDs and it has this section on DNS service availability, which i don't completely understand:
Refers to the ability of the group of ...
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Pros and Cons of Buying Common Website Mispellings
I own a website that is nicely short but somewhat easy to misspell. I would like to buy the three or four most common mispellings and redirect them all to my main page. Are there any major problems ...
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Advantages of country TLD vs. .com
I want to get a domain for my site. The site's topic would be about Vienna, but the content will be in English.
I was thinking, if I should get .com domain or .at domain. .at is both much cheaper ...
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.com vs .me for personal and blogging sites. Which one is good regarding seo [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites?
I basically have a domain under my name with .com extension. I am planning to use it for my portfolio and also as a regular blog.
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Does using a country domain (TLD) negatively effect a site's search ranking if the site content isn't country specific? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites?
I have a website in which the content is not country specific. The TLD is currently .it but the company is hosted and based in the ...
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Can I provide free subdomain service of TLD .pro ?
Can I provide free subdomain (second level) for free like .co.cc do?
I'm trying to register a .pro domain individually.
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when optimising for a “location” based term, are links from the countries tld worth more?
When optimizing for a term such as "bike shop london", do links from .co.uk and .com.uk domains carry more weight? ie. Would a link from a identical in every aspect apart from TLD be worth less in ...
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I'm using a vanity ccTLD, can I persuade Google to geotarget a different region?
Because I'm still living like it's 2008, I run a website with a .in TLD. The website has nothing to do we India and does not target Indian users.
Unfortunately, when I go to Google Webmaster Tools I ...
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Naming your website longname.com vs shortcatchy.net vs shortcatchy.info
I'm designing a website that will basically be a social network for sharing information.
I have the domain $$$$d.net and the same domain $$$$d.info
where $$$$ is a word (that runs into the d) ...
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Possible for using a surrogate to buy a .it domain?
I'm a US citizen interested in buying an Italian TLD (*.it). However, those domains can only be registered by EU citizens or residents, or businesses with a registrant who is an Italian citizen and ...
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When acquiring a domain name for product xyz, is it still important to buy .net and .org versions too?
I am buying a domain name for service xyz and obviously I have bought .com in the first place. In the past it was automatic to also buy the .net and .org versions. However, I've been asking myself, ...
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Is it disadvantageous to use a .me domain? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites?
In a scenario like the following, should I go for the .net or the .me domain?
Assumptions:
I have a relatively informal website ...
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Where can I register a .name domain?
All the popular registrars I know of don't seem to offer this domain, and after Google'ing around for a while I came to an index of registrars for this TLD, but they all seem to be Russian.
Is there ...
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How to register a .cn domain
I would like to register a .cn domain. I found the below pages which list the officially accredited registrars:
-based in China: http://www.cnnic.net.cn/html/Dir/2007/06/05/4635.htm
-based outside ...
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What organizations handle the TLD registries and what are the links to their whois search pages
Cautionary Tale: Registrars get rich by screwing you out of money
My first foray into web design included a site with a handful of issues. The original designer/developer created it as a one-off and ...
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Do different TLDs affect your search engine ranking? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites?
I have two identical domain names with different suffixes org and com.
I just installed POSTFIX which has auto configured itself ...
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Does anyone know where I can register a website with a .cat TLD?
I have been looking to register a website with the TLD '.cat'. I know it was created for catalan websites, but I want to do a domain hack, like bit.ly (which appears to be English).
But all the hosts ...
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Best practice for URL direction in a multi TLD site
I'm about to re-launch a uk based community interest company website which has the same link structure for each of 10 different top level domains.
There are presently no international websites, but ...
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Three word domain name [closed]
I need to buy a new 3 word domain name.
Which domain name is more worth or more preferred by users?
my-example-domain.com
or
myexampledomain.com
Thanks
Tom
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International TLD's vs. duplicate content
I currently work at a pretty big website that has visitors from around the globe. My job is to help out on the SEO, and one thing we've been discussing lately is the use of international TLD's. The ...
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Can .gov (or similar official) websites be used for partisanship?
If I were asked to design and maintain a website for a governor seeking reelection highlighting how his or her administration was helping the state to get by in "Tough economic times", would I be ...
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Will search engines divert worldwide traffic away from a website with a country specific TLD?
I have a website that contains world-wide suitable content, although it is in English. The site is just information; not ecommerce. However, it has a ccTLD of ".co.uk", so will search engines ...
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Google analyzing URL
We all know Google analyzes URLs in order to get relevance. That's why JavaScriptoptimizer.com hits the first place for the "javascript optimizer" query.
These are my questions:
Does Google ...
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Delay in .at Domain Name Registration?
I noticed at http://101domain.com that there's a three (3) day delay in registering new .at TLD domains. Any idea why this is? Is it just back-end processing/approval? Has anyone had it go sooner?
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SEO consequences from transfering tld's to sub domains
We have a client that has multiple top level domains for the products they offer. These products are different full fledged softwares. They also have a domain for their actual company that makes ...
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Are domain hacks advisable? and how do they affect SEO?
I'm interested in creating a domain hack, using the .es ccTLD. If the website does not target Spain, is this advisable? I've seen URL shortening services use ccTLDs to provide shorter URLs, however ...
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Is there risk to registering a domain using extension from another country?
I live in the United States. Lets say I want to register a domain name using a domain extension from another country like say for example, Bangladesh (.com.bd).
I know that some countries require a ...
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Can any domain register support any TLD if domain is transferred there?
There are some domain registers out there that support certain TLD's that others do not. My question, is can you register a domain with a special TLD at one register and then transfer the domain name ...
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What Ranking Factors Are Used For International Search?
Google.com vs Google.ca vs Google.co.uk (etc) all rank their results differently. The intention is to return more locally-relevant content.
What factors, other than the ones below, are used to ...
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Get all registered country code top-level domain names
Is there a way to get all the registered domain names for .CN or another country code (CC) top-level domain (TLD)?
Is there a central registry for such data? If not, how do I go about collecting ...
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Registering .ne for non-residents
AFAIK it's hard to register one if you aren't resident. Are there registers which can pre-register for me .ne (like NetworkSolutions does for .eu)?
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Why use a Top Level Domain
I am trying to understand the use of Top Level Domains. Do they help from a SEO perspective? Lets say I have a US site and a Canada site. For US, I create www.foo.com and for Canada I create ...
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Does server location or TLD affects SEO
I have heard(read) SEO experts who claims that you server position will affect your SEO. In the latest example it was about an international site targeting the Russian market so:
Does the server ...
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Importance of grabbing a domain tld
How important is it to grab all available domain TLDs for somewhat popular site? (Alexa Rank: ~20k)
