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Wed 22nd July 2015
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Google swears blind it doesn’t give SEO advantage to new internet dot-words - Analysis For the third time in three years, Google has reiterated its position that it will not give a search ranking advantage to domain names with new internet top-level domains. In a post to its Webmaster Central Blog, the search engine giant has posted and answered six questions over how it handles top-level domains. Most of the questions reiterate widely known policies, such as the fact that "country ... read more ...
Tue 21st July 2015
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Google: All Domain Extensions Are Weighted The Same – Search Engine Journal - Google cleared the air today about how it deals with domain extensions, and confirmed that they’re all weighted equally.With the sudden surge in the amount of domain extensions available, Google has been receiving questions about how the new top level domains (TLDs) like .expert and .pizza are being treated versus old TLDs like .com and .org.The short answer: When Google crawls, indexes, and ranks URLs it makes no difference whether your domain ends in .com or .sucks.All TLDs are treated the same ... read more ...
 
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Google: All Domain Extensions Are Weighted The Same - Google cleared the air today about how it deals with domain extensions, and confirmed that they’re all weighted equally.With the sudden surge in the amount of domain extensions available, Google has been receiving questions about how the new top level domains (TLDs) like .expert and .pizza are being treated versus old TLDs like .com and .org.The short answer: When Google crawls, indexes, and ranks URLs it makes no difference whether your domain ends in .com or .sucks.All TLDs are treated the same ... read more ...
 
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Google Prepares Brands For New TLDs In Search - As a new generation of top level domain (TLD) names continues to emerge, Google steps up to provide answers to questions from brands on how its engine will handle the queries. "We’ve heard and seen questions and misconceptions about the way we treat new top level domains (TLDs), like .guru, .how, or any of the .BRAND gTLDs," wrote John Mueller, Webmaster Trends analyst, in a post published Tuesday. He explains that the search engine and its algorithms treat new gTLDs similar to other gTLDs, such ... read more ...
 
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Google Prepares Brands For New TLDs In Search 07/22/2015 – MediaPost - As a new generation of top level domain (TLD) names continues to emerge, Google steps up to provide answers to questions from brands on how its engine will handle the queries. "We’ve heard and seen questions and misconceptions about the way we treat new top level domains (TLDs), like .guru, .how, or any of the .BRAND gTLDs," wrote John Mueller, Webmaster Trends analyst, in a post published Tuesday. He explains that the search engine and its algorithms treat new gTLDs similar to other gTLDs, such ... read more ...
 
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Google Gives An Update On How It Handles New gTLDs – WebProNews - Google is letting webmasters know about how it handles new top level domains. The company says that as many new generic TLDs become available, it wants to provide some insight into how they’re handled in Google search as it has seen and heard a lot of misconceptions about the topic. The most important thing to note is that Google will generally treat the new gTLDs just like any other gTLDs like .com, .org, etc. Keywords in the TLD do not give it any advantage or disadvantage in search, it says. ... read more ...
 
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Google Gives An Update On How It Handles New gTLDs - Google is letting webmasters know about how it handles new top level domains. The company says that as many new generic TLDs become available, it wants to provide some insight into how they’re handled in Google search as it has seen and heard a lot of misconceptions about the topic. The most important thing to note is that Google will generally treat the new gTLDs just like any other gTLDs like .com, .org, etc. Keywords in the TLD do not give it any advantage or disadvantage in search, it says. ... read more ...
 
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Google Explains How It Handles The New Top Level Domains (TLDs) - Google’s John Mueller has just published on the Google Webmaster Central blog how Google handles the new top level domains (TLDs). John said Google is publishing this because of the questions and misconceptions the company has heard throughout the webmaster community. In summary, there are no TLDs that Google finds preferential to others; they are all treated equally in rankings. There are some geo-specific TLDs that Google will default to a specific country and use ... read more ...
 
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Google Explains How It Handles The New Top Level Domains (TLDs) – Search … - Google’s John Mueller has just published on the Google Webmaster Central blog how Google handles the new top level domains (TLDs). John said Google is publishing this because of the questions and misconceptions the company has heard throughout the webmaster community. In summary, there are no TLDs that Google finds preferential to others; they are all treated equally in rankings. There are some geo-specific TLDs that Google will default to a specific country and use ... read more ...
 
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Google Answers The Question Of How Will It Rank New gTLD’s: .Brands Get No … - Google published a post today on how will Google rank new gTLD’s. “”With the coming of many new generic top level domains (gTLDs), we’d like to give some insight into how these are handled in Google’s search. We’ve heard and seen questions and misconceptions about the way we treat new top level domains (TLDs), like .guru, .how, or any of the .BRAND gTLDs, for example: Q: How will new gTLDs affect search? Is Google changing the search algorithm to favor these TLDs? How important are they ... read more ...
 
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Don’t expect your fancy new top-level domain to give you an SEO boost, says … - With companies now able to apply to use their own brand as a top-level domain (TLD), there have been suggestions that doing this might be an easy way to get a boost in search-engine rankings. For example, that Samsung using something like http://www.phones.samsung might get more hits than the usual samsung.com domain. Not so, says Google …  In its official webmaster blog, the company says that new top-level domains will be treated exactly like conventional ones. Our systems treat ... read more ...
 
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Don’t expect your fancy new top-level domain to give you an SEO boost, says Google - With companies now able to apply to use their own brand as a top-level domain (TLD), there have been suggestions that doing this might be an easy way to get a boost in search-engine rankings. For example, that Samsung using something like http://www.phones.samsung might get more hits than the usual samsung.com domain. Not so, says Google …  In its official webmaster blog, the company says that new top-level domains will be treated exactly like conventional ones. Our systems treat ... read more ...
 
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How Google Handles the New Top Level Domains for SEO - Google Webmaster Blog has posted a new blog post regarding all the new gTLDs (generic top level domains) that have been making their debut recently and how Google is handling those new gTLDs from a ranking and SEO perspective. Most notably, Google states that essentially they treat all gTLDs, including the new brand gTLDs, the same as any other gTLD in the search index. They also talk about the new regional and city TLDs, such as .london or .bayern.  In these cases, they are being treated – at ... read more ...
 
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How Google Handles the New Top Level Domains for SEO – The SEM Post - Google Webmaster Blog has posted a new blog post regarding all the new gTLDs (generic top level domains) that have been making their debut recently and how Google is handling those new gTLDs from a ranking and SEO perspective. Most notably, Google states that essentially they treat all gTLDs, including the new brand gTLDs, the same as any other gTLD in the search index. They also talk about the new regional and city TLDs, such as .london or .bayern.  In these cases, they are being treated – at ... read more ...
Mon 20th July 2015
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Silicon Valley’s Naming Problem and How to Fight it – Tech.Co - The global startup scene is more turbulent than ever and this makes it quite hard for new companies to build their reputation both online and offline. The former, of course, seems to be a tad more important given the potential of web marketing and online service delivery models most startups now experiment with. In fact, for most modern startups, the web presence is everything. With minimum investment, they can reach worldwide consumers and build a global name. Provided that they choose a good ... read more ...
 
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Silicon Valley’s Naming Problem and How to Fight it - The global startup scene is more turbulent than ever and this makes it quite hard for new companies to build their reputation both online and offline. The former, of course, seems to be a tad more important given the potential of web marketing and online service delivery models most startups now experiment with. In fact, for most modern startups, the web presence is everything. With minimum investment, they can reach worldwide consumers and build a global name. Provided that they choose a good ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Accountability Deficits Revealed in Panel Ruling on .AFRICA – CircleID - "Fortress ICANN" No Longer Able to Shield Itself from Accountability In an important test of ICANN's primary accountability mechanism, its Independent Review Process (IRP), the organization has been handed a stinging blow over its mishandling of the bid for the new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) .AFRICA. At the crux of the issue are two competing applications for the .AFRICA new gTLD and the decision by ICANN's Board to abdicate its responsibility to ensure that ICANN's evaluation and subsequent ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Accountability Deficits Revealed in Panel Ruling on .AFRICA - "Fortress ICANN" No Longer Able to Shield Itself from Accountability In an important test of ICANN's primary accountability mechanism, its Independent Review Process (IRP), the organization has been handed a stinging blow over its mishandling of the bid for the new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) .AFRICA. At the crux of the issue are two competing applications for the .AFRICA new gTLD and the decision by ICANN's Board to abdicate its responsibility to ensure that ICANN's evaluation and subsequent ... read more ...
 
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ICANN to resume evaluation of DotConnectAfrica Trust application for .AFRICA - INTERNET | July 20, 2015, 12:38 p.m.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced it will resume evaluation of DotConnectAfrica Trust's (DCA's) application for the .AFRICA new generic top-level domain.ICANN's Board of Directors convened a special meeting last week to quickly address an independent review panel's declaration that held in favor of DotConnectAfrica Trust regarding certain claims about its .AFRICA top-level domain application. During the meeting, the ... read more ...
 
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.CO Turns Five: With 1.8M Domains: 120 .CO Startups Raised $460M In Funding … - Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR), sent out a press release today in celebration of the fifth birthday of the .CO web extension and there are released some pretty interesting stats: • Over 1.8 Million .CO domains under currently under management • 120 companies using the .Co domain name extension raised $460 million in funding in 2015 (1st half of year) • Over 55% of .CO registrants are from the United States • New York City is the top U.S. city with the most .CO domains registered • Twitter® ... read more ...
 
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.CO Turns Five: With 1.8M Domains: 120 .CO Startups Raised $460M In Funding in … - Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR), sent out a press release today in celebration of the fifth birthday of the .CO web extension and there are released some pretty interesting stats: • Over 1.8 Million .CO domains under currently under management • 120 companies using the .Co domain name extension raised $460 million in funding in 2015 (1st half of year) • Over 55% of .CO registrants are from the United States • New York City is the top U.S. city with the most .CO domains registered • Twitter® ... read more ...
Sun 19th July 2015
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ICANN 53: Accountability, Brand Policy & New Round of New gTLDs - In June, MarkMonitor joined our colleagues once again at the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) 53rd public meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Several high-profile and contentious issues were on the agenda, many of which have significant impact on the interests of intellectual property and brand owners. Among these are the ongoing ICANN Accountability issues and the impending departure of ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé; registrant information (Whois) transparency, accuracy ... read more ...
 
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ICANN to Resume Evaluation of DotConnectAfrica Trust Application for .AFRICA – ag-IP - Home / ICANN to Resume Evaluation of DotConnectAfrica Trust Application for ... / LOS ANGELES - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced in a press release that it will resume evaluation of DotConnectAfrica Trust's (DCA's) application for the .AFRICA new generic top-level domain.  ICANN's Board of Directors convened a special meeting on 16 July 2015 to quickly address an independent review panel's ... read more ...
Sat 18th July 2015
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.Love Winds Up Its 1st Day With 2956 Domain Registrations -     The new gTLD .Love launched into general availability (GA) yesterday, where is could be registered on a first come, first served basis and wound up with a whole lot of .Love ending the day with 2,956 registrations. .Love only had 182 domain names after the Sunrise period, which was opened only to trademark holders and the landrush period where people paid an extra fee to registered a domain name early ahead of GA. Over 51% of all registrations were made through the China based registrar, West263.com ... read more ...
 
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.Love Winds Up Its 1st Day With 2,956 Domain Registrations – TheDomains.com -     The new gTLD .Love launched into general availability (GA) yesterday, where is could be registered on a first come, first served basis and wound up with a whole lot of .Love ending the day with 2,956 registrations. .Love only had 182 domain names after the Sunrise period, which was opened only to trademark holders and the landrush period where people paid an extra fee to registered a domain name early ahead of GA. Over 51% of all registrations were made through the China based registrar, West263.com ... read more ...