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By Clare Lawrence 10th March 2003
Clare is the CEO of Discount Domains Ltd a leading UK Domain name registration service.

Download Qtorrent I am often asked this question. Is it possible that search engines such as google give preference to the .com TLD? Or are TLD's all treated equally?

?»?Additional Resources ?»?Tutorials Existing Customer Login ? ? What is a Top Level Domain (TLD) Problem What is a Top Level Domain (TLD) Solution A Top Level Domain (TLD) is the "suffix" or the end of each domain name. (e.g., the .com in yahoo.com is the TLD.) global and country code.

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Enter your desired domain name into the checker below to view a .co.uk, .com or any other TLD (top level domain) variant. Choose your domain(s) from the options available and click Continue. step 2

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then requests for all hosts in the domain.tld domain will be served by the www.domain.tld virtual host. and can be used to match names. Of course, you can't just make up names and place them in ServerName or ServerAlias. You must first have your DNS server properly configured to map those names to an IP address associated with your server.

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Yahoo Greetings There is no evidence that any preference is given to TLD by search engines, though your choice of TLD name may be influenced by your plans for it.

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Clare Lawrence is CEO of Discount Domains Ltd - A leading UK provider of Domain name registration
and Web Hosting services. Please feel free to re-publish this article provided this reference box remains together with a hyperlink to http://www.discountdomainsuk.com Clare can also be contacted on clare@discountdomainsuk.com