Google now treats .io as a gccTLD
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Google now treats .io as a gccTLD
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Re: Google now treats .io as a gccTLD
#2Wow, someone at Google finally successfully championed the cause! Thanks to whoever you are if you're reading this.
Re: Google now treats .io as a gccTLD
#3Wow! They actually listened. Who would have thought..
Re: Google now treats .io as a gccTLD
#4I'm amazed at how fast this was done, seems like only weeks ago several people suggested this.
Re: Google now treats .io as a gccTLD
#5May I know what does it do to be in the gccTLD list? Does it changes something for those website?
Re: Google now treats .io as a gccTLD
#6That's great! I'm guessing that a lot more startups are going to use a .io domain now since there are a lot of good domain names available.
Re: Google now treats .io as a gccTLD
#7May I know what does it do to be in the gccTLD list? Does it changes something for those website?
It means that it's treated the same as a .com and no longer treated as an Indian Ocean-specific website I believe.
Re: Google now treats .io as a gccTLD
#8May I know what does it do to be in the gccTLD list? Does it changes something for those website?
It means that Google will treat it as a worldwide website, as opposed to being country-specific. This means that .io domains are more likely to show up in US search results, and will no longer be given priority in "the British Indian Ocean Territory"[1]
Re: Google now treats .io as a gccTLD
#9Thank you Google!
Re: Google now treats .io as a gccTLD
#10I'm amazed at how fast this was done, seems like only weeks ago several people suggested this.
It probably helped that every Github Pages site started going to username.github.io. I'd imagine a variety of repositories became harder to find, which'd be noticeable at Google HQ.