In the light of over 200 new generic Top Level Domains having been released to the Internet so far, a question appears as to whether any of them are among the extensions that rank highest in search results.
Pete Meyers, a cognitive psychologist and SEO expert from Chicago, has compiled information in an attempt to answer that question by looking at the first page of Google results for 10 000 queries. He then analysed the 93 315 URLs that the queries generated according to rank and percentage.
Though conducted from US IPs and indicative mostly of the US market, the search results demonstrated unquestionably the dominance of the .COM domain, making up for over 80% of the search results. The .ORG and .GOV domains came in second and third respectively.
The queries were conducted in the English language and, for the most part, were commercial in nature. Despite growing popularity of new gTLDs, the extensions are not widely visible on the Net.
Here are the top 50 TLDs appearing in Google search results in the US:
(1) .COM – 80.33%
(2) .ORG – 11.89%
(3) .GOV – 3.36%
(4) .NET – 1.36%
(5) .EDU – 1.31%
(6) .CO.UK – 0.31%
(7) .US – 0.17%
(8) .INFO – 0.09%
(9) .MIL – 0.08%
(10) .CA – 0.07%
(11) .COM.AU – 0.07%
(12) .TX.US – 0.06%
(13) .FM – 0.06%
(14) .JOBS – 0.05%
(15) .CO – 0.04%
(16) .BIZ – 0.04%
(17) .EU – 0.04%
(18) .FL.US – 0.03%
(19) .TV – 0.03%
(20) .ORG.UK – 0.03%
(21) .INT – 0.03%
(22) .ME – 0.03%
(23) .IO – 0.02%
(24) .CC – 0.02%
(25) .DE – 0.02%
(26) .NJ.US – 0.02%
(27) .GA.US – 0.02%
(28) .MN.US – 0.02%
(29) .WS – 0.02%
(30) .PA.US – 0.02%
(31) .IL.US – 0.01%
(32) .IN – 0.01%
(33) .MD.US – 0.01%
(34) .CO.NZ – 0.01%
(35) .VA.US – 0.01%
(36) .GOV.UK – 0.01%
(37) .LY – 0.01%
(38) .MA.US – 0.01%
(39) .CA.US – 0.01%
(40) .GC.CA – 0.01%
(41) .OH.US – 0.01%
(42) .OR.US – 0.01%
(43) .TRAVEL – 0.01%
(44) .VA – 0.01%
(45) .WI.US – 0.01%
(46) .AK.US – 0.01%
(47) .IS – 0.01%
(48) .ORG.AU – 0.01%
(49) .RU – 0.01%
(50) .CN – 0.01%
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