{"id":6402,"date":"2015-12-23T21:56:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T21:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-240247-737707.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=6402"},"modified":"2015-12-23T21:56:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T21:56:24","slug":"gtlds-good-or-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idzyns.com\/gtlds-good-or-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"gTLDs&#8211;Good or Bad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These days you can get a gTLD (Generic Top Level Domain) with almost any name. Since the early 2000s, it\u2019s been difficult to get your hands on a decent top level domain (.com, .net, .org). Many of these were purchased and parked mostly for this exact scenario, so these barons could hike up the price and sell you a prime .com domain that you want for the relevance to your purpose, and one that garnishes recognition from your target audience.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some popular gTLDs have been around for a long time include .mobi, .tv, .biz, and more, but more are being formed continuously. Many new ones include .online, .xyz, .global, .tech, .news, and pretty much anything else imaginable. These gTLDs are great tools for anyone wishing to achieve a branding or public image goal.<\/span><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6408\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6408\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6408 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-240247-737707.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/top-level-domains-300x286.png\" alt=\".Com started it all\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Domain Name Hierarchy<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are still many valid .coms, however. You should always start your search with top-level domains before moving onto gTLDs. A great rule of thumb is to seek a top-level domain and redirect all of your other gTLDs to the main domain. This achieves a web-presence monopoly insofar that anyone searching for something remotely related to your company will index many sites and redirect them to your .com. As long as your main site isn\u2019t predatory or malicious in nature, this won\u2019t negatively affect your SEO.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nInterested in reserving a domain name for yourself or your business? Check out our discounted domain name registration service today at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/shop.wordpress-240247-737707.cloudwaysapps.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shop.wordpress-240247-737707.cloudwaysapps.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days you can get a gTLD (Generic Top Level Domain) with almost any name. Since the early 2000s, it\u2019s been difficult to get your hands on a decent top level domain (.com, .net, .org). Many of these were purchased and parked mostly for this exact scenario, so these barons could hike up the price [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[13,14,15,16,19,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idzyns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idzyns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idzyns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idzyns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idzyns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idzyns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idzyns.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idzyns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idzyns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idzyns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}