.tv Google: We Treat .tv as a gTLD

[Ammudamus]

Good news!

Best,
A

Google: We Treat .tv as a gTLD
Posted by Michaela B., VeriSign

I was recently asked whether Google Search treats .tv as a ccTLD or a gTLDs; so I thought I’d answer that here on the blog also. Don’t take my word for it, according to Google’s own site, they treat it as a gTLD. Says John Mueller, Google Webmaster, “Yes, we treat .tv as a gTLD.”

Source: http://blog.watch.tv/2010/10/google-tv-gtld/

 

[Vito]

Very Cool!

 

[Makis.TV]

Do you have the direct link of this?

 

[Ammudamus]

Makis,
I thought I included it. Should be there now!

Best,
A

Do you have the direct link of this?

 

[Makis.TV]

Thanks!

 

[carob]

Thanks, good news that is.

 

[freedom30]

...just rated her article a fiver. Surprised I'm the first one to do it, too.

The floodgates appear to be opening for the "humble" extension...

PS,
Ace, your constant searching for information is truly an inspiration to all confident in the .tv extension. Mucho kudos and thanks to you, my good man!

 

[dr manos]

http://www.namepros.com/dot-tv/678908-where-is-your-opinion-tv-now.html

speculated there that it is treated by many people also as gtld :blink:

 

[Kate]

Isn't it old news ?

 

[freedom30]

Isn't it old news ?

...for you, more than likely.

For me the rest of the unwashed, GREAT NEWS!

 

[ThreeD]

Isn't it old news ?

I was thinking the same thing. This was announced earlier this year, but it's always good to remind and update some people

 

[Vito]

Isn't it old news ?

If it is old news, I guess I dont remember the post/blog/article etc.

I love Dot TV facts more than most, and I think I would have remembered that...maybe not? lol

But upon further investigation, I still dont see where it IS written that in fact Google has written that they treat TV as a gtld.

I of course went to the link Ammadumas posted and see what the author had quoted.

Then within her post she has a link "Googles own site"
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/12/region-tags-in-google-search-results.html
but I still dont see anyewhere on there where they actually say tv IS in fact treated as a gtld.

I see that they have made it easier to see the location (Country of origin) of the site but thats it.

What am I missing here?

 

[freedom30]

If it is old news, I guess I dont remember the post/blog/article etc.

I love Dot TV facts more than most, and I think I would have remembered that...maybe not? lol

But upon further investigation, I still dont see where it IS written that in fact Google has written that they treat TV as a gtld.

I of course went to the link Ammadumas posted and see what the author had quoted.

Then within her post she has a link "Googles own site"
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/12/region-tags-in-google-search-results.html
but I still dont see anyewhere on there where they actually say tv IS in fact treated as a gtld.

I see that they have made it easier to see the location (Country of origin) of the site but thats it.

What am I missing here?

John Mueller of Google states it in the comments section...

 

[ipodxpert]

Great news.

 

[Vito]

John Mueller of Google states it in the comments section...

I guess I didnt read that far...doh!

Thx Ken.

So there we have it Folks!

Its Official now - .TV is the new .com!

 

[DnEbook]

i add all my .tv websites to webmaster tools in my google account and after analytics and sitemap. next is the geographic settings which when i go to is set, is already set to united states ?? i then re-set it to unlisted

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I guess I didnt read that far...doh!

Thx Ken.

So there we have it Folks!

Its Official now - .TV is the new .com!

but i thought .co was the next .com ....doh

 

[snoop]

You mean all those .tv sites don't get treated as though they are about Tuvalu? huge news!

The floodgates appear to be opening for the "humble" extension...

Break out the raspberry cordial and the credit cards.

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Its Official now - .TV is the new .com!

Taxi! Looks like one person has already had too much.

 

[discovernow]

You mean all those .tv sites don't get treated as though they are about Tuvalu? huge news!



Break out the raspberry cordial and the credit cards.

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Taxi! Looks like one person has already had too much.

Poor Snoop, he is wrong again

 

[speedaccu]

.TV ain't a joke, who am I to tell so...., yeah I might kid by domaining, but made more than $35k by just hand reg within 6 months time spend and a big portion of it now in .TV....WHY ?

I could see it, I'm a kid in domain games....but just curious why there is some still wanna play bad and trash .TV here and there.

Not posting this for self ego satisfaction, just want to say " If some one so young in domaining could see it..... WHY those old timer can't see it ?

Tvers....just do what you'll are doing all the time.

MANO
* no offend intended to any one

 

[snoop]

.TV ain't a joke, who am I to tell so...., yeah I might kid by domaining, but made more than $35k by just hand reg within 6 months time spend and a big portion of it now in .TV....WHY ?

I could see it, I'm a kid in domain games....but just curious why there is some still wanna play bad and trash .TV here and there.

Not posting this for self ego satisfaction, just want to say " If some one so young in domaining could see it..... WHY those old timer can't see it ?

Tvers....just do what you'll are doing all the time.

MANO
* no offend intended to any one

My comments are not trash "trashing .tv"

They are making two points,

-Isn't it obvious that Google would treat the extension as a gtld just like any other rebranded tld? Why would they treat it as a country code and when did they ever treat it as such? (note all that is a different to Google ranking .tv sites well, .jobs and .museum are seen as gtld's as well)

-All the comments about floodgates opening and the like is nonsense, the policy is not new, I don't think they have ever had a different policy on the extension.