Sathees Navaratnam
ccTLD stands for country code Top Level Domain. Read more at Wikipedia.
ccTLD is to dominate the web world? YES!
I say this because of the trend indicates strongly towards ccTLD. There are many reasons for this to grow rapidly. I’ll explore some of them here.
We should know the basic of Domaining. The target of this Domaining game is to get as much as possible visitors to the domain name. This is archived through many means and Search Engines play a significant roll here. Why?
Let me look from the surfer’s angle. My requirement is a dog. What will I do?
Possibilities . . .
Open web browser and type dog. Check the listing. What I see is the documentation of dog. That’s obvious the Wikipedia will rank high. Observe the dog.com ranks 2nd. So how many people are using search engine to search for dog? Its 823′000 people in a month within US and 1,830,000 globally searching the term “dog”. Bigger portion of the people will visit dog.com. Now that’s called business ;0)
What happens if you just type dog in address bar?
This is the catch point! You may have notice the browser directs to dog.com. That’s why the .com is the King. This is to change. The smart browsers of the future will direct to ccTLD. Why? Because people are more comfortable with an address in their own country. A browser from UK prefer dog.co.uk than dog.com.
“Know Devil is better than unknown God.”
While the research found this is true and growing smart browsers will revert to ccTLD than TLD as well as search engines will list accordingly.
Every thing else will follow. The dot com will not vanish from the picture but will be less valuable than the ccTLD counterpart.
3 Comments for ccTLD to Dominate
Kat ii
How to become a domainer | Cash the Web | December 6, 2009 at 4:22 am
[...] This market also opens different aspects as it grows. The title “dot com rules” will come to an end and it will change to “ccTLD rules”. The reason for this been published here. [...]
Daniel Dryzek
I will only add my 2 cents. What is important is that English is not the default language for many, many nations. In European Union only in th UK people speak English. So in other countries people will not type in “dog” but rather “hund”, “pies”, “chien” etc. And of course the name is followed by .de, .pl, .fr and so on.
Yes I quite agree with your forecast