Will Google target the .co extension to Columbia or will they treat it as a global domain?

They should make a decision shortly or maybe we will know if we buy .co.

What do you think?

Who knows??


It will probably be like every other TLD.

Treated globally for global searching, but for Searchers from Columbia may not be filtered for LOCAL results.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Who knows??

Google, I guess.

I would imagine they will base it on more factors than the domain TLD -

- IP allocation
- Language Selection
- Page content
- Search traffic localisation

And form an opinion about the location of sites that way. I doubt very much that Google relies on TLDs or any other single factor for anything.

In fact - knowing them they probably have "degrees of locality" - e.g. a site with a UK IP address and UK content with a .uk domain is probably "more UK" than a site with a USA IP address, UK content and a .co domain - but only Googlers have the answer...

Actually the ccTLD IS the primary factor in localisation.

Country IP assignment does come into play for gTLDs.

I always thought that .co stood for "company".

Either way I have to agree with Chris I think it will be like the other TLDs (.com, .net, .info, .org, .biz).

Jack

knowing google they will treat is as china lol

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Actually the ccTLD IS the primary factor in localisation.

Country IP assignment does come into play for gTLDs.

Out of interest I'd love to know your source for that...?

So in the end, does a .co worth the money?

Originally Posted by HandCoder

Out of interest I'd love to know your source for that...?

Try OBSERVING results, you may actually learn something useful.

if you can find a good domain i can't see why don't you buy it... other then that its waste money...like other said .com .net ..etc still rule

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Who knows??


It will probably be like every other TLD.

Treated globally for global searching, but for Searchers from Columbia may not be filtered for LOCAL results.

There is another tld called .com.co
They can do .co domain for global, but if you want to use for local or offline business, you can use .com.co
So i think google can use .co domain as International Domain.

And i really think that is a good idea, because .com's have already gone crazy. There are no new .com domain available.

and i really hope that they accept .co domain as international domain.

Originally Posted by webgames247

if you can find a good domain i can't see why don't you buy it... other then that its waste money...like other said .com .net ..etc still rule

I disagree,
i mean .net .org .tv, gov, edu, biz those are the few global domains i remember.
.tv is the tld of islands of Tuvalu, but then google accepted the domain as global domain and its now officially used for the media and related stuff.
Same thing can happen with .co.

.net .org .tv, gov, edu, biz are the targeted domains,
But why we only have .com when we can have .co domain.

All i'm saying is if you dont wanna buy it, its fine, But lets think globally. Or lets say, who knows if you will own bunch of .co domain in future.

but then google accepted the domain as global domain and its now officially used for the media and related stuff.

"Google" do nothing of the sort.

The people who operate sites on these TLDs;
TREAT THEM as "global"
PROMOTE them as "global"
MARKET them as "global"

so consequently the SEs treat them as "global".

Localisation with ccTLDs is NOT that the ccTLDs are treated any differently in google.com searches. It is that "global" sites and TLDs get filtered down in the LOCAL datacentres.

so:
.co.jp TLDs may get "better" positions in Google.co.jp
.de TLDs may get "better" positions in Google.de
.fr TLDs may get "better" positions in Google.fr
.in TLDs may get "better" positions in Google.in
and so on.

IF you market and promote a .com, .net, .org as a "local" website it will stand an equal chance as a cctld does in the corresponding "local" Google.

So if the number of website will grow who TREAT, PROMOTE, MARKET them as global, Just like they are doing right now. You think SEs will treat them as global.

No.


It will be exactly as it is now. Individual pages are treated AS individual cases

Individual queries treated as individual.


IF the query is not determined by the SE to be a "local" query it will not matter WHAT the TLD is or what "local" engine is being queried.