new gtlds Google shifts 400,000 .site domains

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Google the search engine indexes 403,000 business.site pages currently. Because each subdomain is limited to a single page, it is possible that the number of subdomains is not too far behind that number, Radix believes.

This means that business.site is likely almost as large as the .site gTLD itself, which currently has about 450,000 names in its zone file.

As well as being the registry for many new gTLDs, Google parent Alphabet uses a .xyz domain and its registrar uses a .google domain...

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[domainer021]

This is great news for .site!

 

[domainer021]

The name business.site is already in the Alexa top 20k. Sub-domains work but the name business.site throws a 404. Google should fix this soon.

 

[Bob Hawkes]

A relative newbie here, but I don't understand exactly what this means, and the link in the original post seems not to go to anywhere meaningful. Can someone more expert please explain in a bit more detail exactly what this means with respect to searches and the .site TLD? Thanks.

Bob

 

[domainer021]

http://www.circleid.com/posts/google_buys_businesssite_domain_for_google_my_business/

Recognition of the .site gTLD will get a boost because of this move by Google.