After reading through many different threads here at webmasterworld and some other forums, I pretty much came to the conclusion that search engines don't discriminate against TLD's; in other words part of the reason you don't see many .biz, .info etc ranking very high in search engines has everything to do with the content of the site, and NOT the TLD.
With this method of thinking, I registered a .WS domain name tonight that I HOPE does pretty well in search engine placement (eventually). For my url, all other standard tlds (com, net, org, us, info, biz, etc) but beacuse I know that they domain name itself plays a pretty big role (at least with google) I really wanted these keywords in my domain name.
My question: has anyone else ever registered a .ws domain (or some other alternative/international domain) and have had negative results?
.ws is a ccTLD, as is .co.uk, .us, .ru
There is a logical basis for weighting ccTLDs differently than gTLDs, as ccTLD have a different "domain focus", requirements and restrictions.
My question: has anyone else ever registered a .ws domain (or some other alternative/international domain) and have had negative results?
With reports like these being generated out there, I'd have to guess that certain ccTLDs are poison right out of the box...
[toolbar.netcraft.com...]
