Google registry released a new tool “Domain Test” which is a “tool designed to help developers test their applications for compatibility with new top-level domains (TLDs). ”
Domain Test was “developed by Google and launched in a partnership between Google Registry and Ausregistry, CentralNic, Donuts, RightSide, and Uniregistry.
Domain Test is an open source project available under the Apache 2 license and can be used across 145 new TLDs.”
“It is freely available for use and modification.” So it’s an open source code”
The notice on the site laying out the program goes on to explain:
“In 2011, the Internet Committee for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved a new gTLD program, where applicants could apply to own and operate new gTLDs. A total of 1,930 applications were filed, and beginning in 2013, ICANN began delegating new gTLDs to the root DNS zone. These gTLDs have a series of characteristics, such as string length and the use of non-Latin scripts, that can cause bugs in software. Domain Test helps developers identify and fix these problems.
This repository contains the documentation and code for Domain Test.
For clarity, the documentation uses the term “new TLDs” to refer to the universe of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), new country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs), and internationalized domain names (IDNs).
The Domain Test service runs on AppEngine and is available for any developer to use. The syntax examples in this documentation use the domaintest.みんな domain name. However, depending on what type of new TLD you want to test, you can substitute any of the strings in the Domain Test TLDs section of this documentation.”
You can read more about the program here
Here are the new gTLD extensions that are participating in the program, that are are using a Domain Test URL:
domaintest.academy
domaintest.actor
domaintest.agency
domaintest.airforce
domaintest.army
domaintest.associates
domaintest.attorney
domaintest.auction
domaintest.band
domaintest.bar
domaintest.bargains
domaintest.bike
domaintest.blackfriday
domaintest.boutique
domaintest.builders
domaintest.cab
domaintest.camera
domaintest.camp
domaintest.capital
domaintest.cards
domaintest.care
domaintest.careers
domaintest.cash
domaintest.catering
domaintest.center
domaintest.cheap
domaintest.christmas
domaintest.cleaning
domaintest.clinic
domaintest.clothing
domaintest.codes
domaintest.coffee
domaintest.community
domaintest.company
domaintest.computer
domaintest.condos
domaintest.construction
domaintest.consulting
domaintest.contractors
domaintest.cool
domaintest.cruises
domaintest.dance
domaintest.dating
domaintest.degree
domaintest.democrat
domaintest.dental
domaintest.dentist
domaintest.diamonds
domaintest.directory
domaintest.discount
domaintest.domains
domaintest.education
domaintest.email
domaintest.engineer
domaintest.engineering
domaintest.enterprises
domaintest.equipment
domaintest.estate
domaintest.events
domaintest.exchange
domaintest.expert
domaintest.exposed
domaintest.fail
domaintest.farm
domaintest.financial
domaintest.fish
domaintest.fitness
domaintest.flights
domaintest.florist
domaintest.foo
domaintest.forsale
domaintest.foundation
domaintest.fund
domaintest.furniture
domaintest.futbol
domaintest.gallery
domaintest.gives
domaintest.glass
domaintest.graphics
domaintest.gripe
domaintest.guitars
domaintest.guru
domaintest.haus
domaintest.holdings
domaintest.holiday
domaintest.host
domaintest.house
domaintest.immobilien
domaintest.ink
domaintest.institute
domaintest.international
domaintest.investments
domaintest.kaufen
domaintest.kitchen
domaintest.land
domaintest.lawyer
domaintest.lease
domaintest.lighting
domaintest.limited
domaintest.limo
domaintest.link
domaintest.maison
domaintest.management
domaintest.market
domaintest.marketing
domaintest.media
domaintest.moda
domaintest.mortgage
domaintest.navy
domaintest.ninja
domaintest.partners
domaintest.photography
domaintest.photos
domaintest.pics
domaintest.pictures
domaintest.plumbing
domaintest.press
domaintest.productions
domaintest.properties
domaintest.pub
domaintest.recipes
domaintest.rehab
domaintest.reisen
domaintest.rentals
domaintest.repair
domaintest.report
domaintest.republican
domaintest.rest
domaintest.reviews
domaintest.rip
domaintest.rocks
domaintest.schule
domaintest.services
domaintest.shoes
domaintest.singles
domaintest.social
domaintest.software
domaintest.solar
domaintest.solutions
domaintest.support
domaintest.surgery
domaintest.systems
domaintest.tax
domaintest.technology
domaintest.tienda
domaintest.tips
domaintest.today
domaintest.town
domaintest.toys
domaintest.training
domaintest.university
domaintest.vacations
domaintest.ventures
domaintest.vet
domaintest.viajes
domaintest.villas
domaintest.vision
domaintest.voyage
domaintest.watch
domaintest.website
domaintest.wiki
domaintest.works
domaintest.wtf
domaintest.xyz
domaintest.zone
domaintest.みんな
As a blogger I have found that from all new GTlds, they are not have same compability with Google index. The best new GTlds for SEO with Google is .xyz, .club is good but still under .xyz. And for honestly, I have tried .online and .top and found they are very difficult to get Google ranks. I hope this new program can solve the problem too.
@Surya,
I’m not sure about Google Rank, but I have about 20 or so ngtlds within alexa 3M. out of these 20, exact 4 are within Alexa 1M ), these show up -first- in google, bing ( somehow, not yahoo ) even without the dot ( if you search “sld.tld” Versus “sld tld” ).
( to be precise and in no particular order, .link, .help, .ventures, .online, .news, .tools, .top, .global, .science, .email ). What I have found is that as a particular one goes up in Alexa, it tends to appear first in google and alikes ( without paying any ads nor cheating ).
I have also found, that IDNWorded.ngtld ( not English but Latin-Script accents ) gets there first, but it could be because idns are not big in the traditional space anyways .. None of them have landing pages, partially or fully developed.
Do you see a visible correlation between Alex Ranking and Google Rank?
@MeaningfulEmail,
I was work in a hotel and need more customers. I am not the best SEO and web developer, but have to do my self for omzet. So I use alot of domains with hotel keywords in Indonesia with big search (more than 2000 in Indonesia) and high competitions like hotel jakarta, hotel di jakarta (hotel in jakarta in Indonesian). There will be no customers if I only go in more than top 10 ranks in both Web and Image search. And it is not about just indexed. I have some domains with good Alexa and not shown in Google first page. The key is exact match domains + good SEO + maintenance, not matter with Alexa rank and no matter with domains’ estibot value. The best I have found are .com, .info and .xyz, that’s why I used them, even with hypen..
Content/quality will always be king, unique / original helps. Everything else will happen naturally.
If hilton rebranded to hilton.cool they would still be Hilton, they would still provide the same experience.
Good or bad, what’s in a name? It’s the experience that counts.
Thanks.
This is good, this is really good news in my view ( for the new NameSpace ); It will take time for
these tlds to gain proper value, and meanwhile going beyond the landing page is a good way, imho, to norture
these assets until awareness is not an issue anymore. This is also very good for the traditional NameSpace,
we will see more and more development,
just my 2.cents
Maybe this will finally help Sedo fix their “add domains” process. To this day, certain TLDs are flagged as “invalid”; so a large number of domains can’t be listed for sale at their market place.
Considering Sedo loses money due to this oversight, you’d think they’d be interested. But I’ve only been asking about it for the better part of a year, and I understand it takes a decade to add a TLD to the database table.
Google’s official statement that all TLDs are treated equally when it comes to search engine rankings. If you’re not able to rank a website on a certain TLD then most likely there’s another issue.
Google also stated EMD Domains are not play any role in rankings, but indeed it plays. You can test if it is true or not. That’s only a polite statement…
I think it’s a move in the right direction but it will take a long long time to see a leveled playing field between the .coms and everyone else.