Top-Level Domain & Other Restrictions for International SEO

Is Your Link Building Agency Ripping You Off?

Don't hire any link-building agency until you learn the 5 Red Flags and 4 Warning Signs. Discover how Alexa Top 100 get there and stay there. Click here.

ADVERTISEMENT

Selecting a domain for your website is like deciding a name for your baby. Everyone wants the best name for their website.

In the U.S., most businesses go with a dot-com, which is a generic top-level domain (gTLD). Some websites get creative with top-level domains (TLD) to complete the name such as “time.is”.

But did you know that a top-level domain you choose may have an impact on your website?

ADVERTISEMENT

There are six different types of top-level domains:

• Infrastructure top-level domain (ARPA)
• Generic top-level domains (gTLD)
• Restricted generic top-level domains (grTLD)
• Sponsored top-level domains (sTLD)
• Country code top-level domains (ccTLD)
• Test top-level domains (tTLD)

In this article, we’ll focus on the two most popular TLDs – ccTLD and gTLD.

Note: If you’d like to find out about TLDs in general, go to IANA and ICANN for the information.