International Domain Submission and Associated Page Rank

Can a country based domain make it into a ".com" directory?

[crowthercm]

A friend and I were just talking this over and neither of us were sure of the outcome.

As a canadian developer, I registered a 3 letter .ca domain name. It's "cute", easy to remember, and quite popular among our clients. We have not yet submitted the domain to any of the directories.

My question is this, how do the main directories treat international domains in terms of where they are listed? For instance, if I submitted mydomain.ca to yahoo.com, would it then be searchable under yahoo.com or only ca.yahoo.com? How about DMOZ?

The reason I ask is that I would assume the pagerank for yahoo.com is much higher than ca.yahoo.com.

Thanks,
Chris

[John_Caius]

Dmoz is only one domain, dmoz.org - and that covers all sites listed. If you only have content relevant to Canada then you should look to submit it under Regional/North_America/Canada somewhere. If you have content that users from anywhere in the world could find useful then look in the Topical category that best suits your site, e.g. under Health if it is a health related site.

Dmoz will list your site according to its content, not its domain name. If you had content on a .ca domain name that was only relevant to Spain then it would get listed in Regional/Europe/Spain.

[crowthercm]

Great, that takes care of DMOZ. Actually looking at the source of a few of the yahoo directory pages, it would appear that the same is true for yahoo. What are the chances a directory editor would make a decision based upon a domain extension however?

For instance, say I submitted mysite.ca to they mythical category of:
Internet Junk > Web Widgets > Widget Designers

Do you think there's a chance the editor might move the site to a country based category? (i.e. the same category but on ca.yahoo.com) It does actually make logical sense in some ways to me that canadian widget designers should be listed in a ca.yahoo.com directory. Given it will depend somewhat on the category being submitted to and the audience scope that the site will appeal to. Does anyone have any experience or thoughts?

[moltar]

It seems that ca.yahoo.com and dir.yahoo.com have similar results.

I just tried going through categories in dir.yahoo.com (not even related to Canada) and then just substitude "dir" for "ca" in the address bad and I got the same results.

[crowthercm]

Good idea moltar. I've just done the same and I actually did find some discrepancies. Namely the sites that show a canadian flag image, sometimes disappear when you switch to dir.yahoo. For instance, look at the following links:

[ca.dir.yahoo.com...]

[dir.yahoo.com...]

Notice that the top link on the .ca page "Northern Stars" disappears when you change the url to dir.yahoo.

I guess it would appear if the content is labeled as canadian, it makes a difference...