Country Coded TTD As Word Play?

[Jon_King]

For example if I wanted to register so.so - that would be a Somilia domain, for a marketing gimick, do you see a problem? That is just a made up example but you see where I going...

Would G or Y rank well an obscure country domain in US or UK serps?

[Webwork]

The gimmick might work but I can see people tending to add a dot com in their mind.

I've seen CC domains rank but they seem to have no greater luck ranking "for their keyword" than .com, .net, .org, etc.

I'd like to think that a thinking SE algo would weight a CC TLD for searches that relate specifically to that country and not "in general", i.e., possibly filter/weigh the domain downwards as they are likely to be used for some perceived advantage entirely unrelated to the purpose of the domain. Ergo algo: If page content = weighting of words relevant to country Somoa and etc. then raise for searches relevant to Somoa; Otherwise . . .

[Jon_King]

Thanks WW. I gave one a whirl... we'll see what G will do and I'll repost.