For over 15 years, online businesses in UK have been using either .CO.UK or .COM domains, but we are soon likely to see a new, even more trustworthy and shorter alternative. Why .UK instead of .CO.UK and .ORG.UK? Nominet has …
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How Launch of .UK Domains Could Affect Internet Businesses
For over 15 years, online businesses in UK have been using either .CO.UK or .COM domains, but we are soon likely to see a new, even more trustworthy and shorter alternative. Why .UK instead of .CO.UK and .ORG.UK? Nominet has …
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How Google Might Target Exact Match Domains in new Algo Update(s)
Low quality exact match domains (EMDs) and their websites seems to be the target of Google’s latest algorithm update rolling out. The first version rolled out in USA and UK a few days ago and a second update penalizing low …
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Google recognise British Spelling in ‘Legalise Love’
Google Applies for 101 gTLD’s: Full List & Guide
Nobody knows and understands potential values of domain extensions as well as Google. After years of domain statistics from Adwords, Chrome, Google Analytics and log files from their own search engine. Therefore, it’s no surprise that they allied for 101 …
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.UK reaches 10 million registered domains
UK Launches Multiple Year Domain Registration
Generic Viagra Domains Seized by Nominet
G.org.uk sold for £11 000 to Google?
In the short domain auction for .org.uk name today, the most expensive domain sold was G.org.uk. Google Inc.
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Spammy Domains and Domain Suffix to Avoid in SEO
Google decided to remove over 11 million .co.cc websites earlier today. Using spammy domain suffix in combination with dodgy SEO practices has always been risky, but now it’s confirmed that Google algorithmically blocks certain domains to increase quality. Matt Cutts, …
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Timeline for Short Domain Auctions Announced by Nominet
Nominet recently announced the timeline for short domain auction phrase. It appears that all domains of a certain Generic Top Level Domain (gTLD)
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Will New Domain Suffix Change SEO?
Icann, the global domain authority, approved the launch of new generic Top Level Domains (TLDs) this morning. I quickly received questions how new domain suffix might affect SEO and what to consider with regards to new generic domain and here …
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SEO Specialist vs Google for short domain G.co.uk
It appears SEO Specialist is not the only SEO related company looking to purchase 1 and 2 letter .co.uk domains. At midday (12.00 BST) today, the window for remaining 2 letter domain applications closed. G.co.uk – as in Google? For …
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Domain Age and SEO
Google and other search engines consider the age of a domain as a small ranking factor. Here we explain the logic about having domain age as a SEO factor, and what to consider when choosing or changing your domain name. …
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Landrush For Short .uk Domains
Looking for a new domain name for your business? Perhaps you can find what you are looking for in the landrush phrase of the remaining 2640 short .uk domanins (ie: co.uk, org.uk, .net.uk and me.uk). Every domain name with more …
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It’s a historic day for British Internet users, British English language fanatics and gay activists. Finally, Google recognise both British spelling (legalise instead of legalize) and gay marriage rights in their international campaign. Google has never before been using a …
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