John1968

I have a couple of questions here.

a. There are various domains tlds in market today.
Global tlds - .com, .net, .org, .info
Country Specific - .uk, .us, .in, .co.in
How does search engines like google, yahoo and msn rank them ?

Taking into consideration following example, if anyone sets up following websites, with similar content, similar SEO, lets assume for a moment everything is similar:
Each website below is hosted across multiple servers worldwide
www.sample.com
www.sample.net
www.sample.org
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www.sample.info
www.sample.uk
www.sample.us
www.sample.in
www.sample.co.in

What website among the list above, gets ranked first on the major search engines for any specific keyword ?
google.com
google.co.uk
google.co.in
msn.com
yahoo.com

b. How is Content Spidering handled by this engines ?

c. Shall a co.in and in domain gets more weightwage/results under google.co.in (country specific) ?
Shall a co.uk domain gets more weightwage/results under google.co.in (country specific) ?
Shall a .com domain get more results globally on google.com (used globally, in India as well UK)

d. My Question is very much related to our existing/future business.
Need Proper Guidance on Selection of a proper .tld
We ran a example.com site/forums running smooth since few years, we have no longer access to this .com domain (Personal Issues with the Domain Owner, and have no longer access to this domain.)
We have registered example.net and (example.our country extension) our country specific tlds

What will be the impact on global traffic henceforth ? Since we used to get our maximum traffic via google.

What will the experts here recommend us ? using a .net tld or country specific ? Since we plan to project some business in future via help of our forums.

Thanks

Mark

Great Question John ! - If you read any of the major's TOS etc ... You'll Probably never see mention of anything related to this .... because Really in theory - It shouldn't matter - In reality , I don't think goog or any others are going to multiply their listings by 50 just because there are that many new extensions. I personally Believe that "Parked" Domains are going to start being pushed aside by many of the new "Developed" Extensions ..... But who Really Knows ?

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John1968

hey all4cost we are seeking a solution here. i am trying to get a definitive answer since last 2 weeks for our problems.
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we used to run mydomain.com a very popular site/forums in past.
since we did not had any legal agreements, the domain owner has now taken over the domain (since was registered by him) the entire traffic is re-directed by this person to himself.

however, we managed to register mydomain.net mydomain.info mydomain.uk tlds for this domain, what tld will you suggest us to use and why ?

we plan to start a local business for our country very soon, shall mydomain.uk help us here ? more then mydomain.net ?

We have the entire content with us, to get the traffic back to us globally we might take a little more time.