Two guests shed light on ccTLDs.
.Com is king in much of the world, but not in Europe. In many European countries, the country code domain name (ccTLD) is used more often than .com. On today’s show, I talk to two people who live and breathe ccTLDs. First, I talk with Peter Van Roste, who is the General Manager of CENTR, a group that helps European ccTLD managers. We then chat with Jakob Truelsen, the CEO of DK Hostmaster, which manages Denmark’s .DK domain name. Truelsen explains how the group was able to cut down on websites using .DK domains to sell counterfeit goods without wading into the murky area of reviewing content.
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Suresh Raghavan says
Andrew, this is much needed exposure to cctlds . Here in the US, most are unaware that cctlds actually are the No.1 choice, not .com in many countries and that trend is only bound to increase in my opinion.
Have traveled extensively in India (where .in and .co.in) are used quite a bit , in fact wrote an post of namepros a few years ago. A short visit to Canada from Detroit (for me) also shows a large presence of .ca .
It seems like we don’t talk enough about these cctlds that are actually being used by big brands in the rest of the world. Instead wast our time and money on worthless ngtlds .
.com is going to be king for global use but for local/focussed markets there is no answer to cctlds