Top-Level Domain & Other Restrictions for International SEO

Note go to IANA and ICANN for the information.. Perhaps SEO benefit of using ccTLD for your website is the geotargeting benefit, as it sends the message to the search engines that the page is designed for state or region.. For example, you'd need to take additional steps to indicate that those sites are designed for France or U.S.. While the search engines are not saying that you must have ccTLD, the local search engines such as Baidu and Yandex seem to weigh websites with..cn and..ru more in the search results.. You can obtain Chinese ccTLD..cn from outside China, and Chinese government requires all websites targeting China to be registered to obtain ICP BeiA.. In ICP framework published in China Telecommunication Catalog, it seems that they now require organizations to reply agreement with China-based ISP to apply for and ICP license.. You can obtain Japanese ccTLD..jp from outside Japan, and you must have search or organization registered with material address in Japan to register the second level terms such as..co.jp and..or.jp... Similar to Japanese second-level terms, you need to have local presence.. Many websites have started to use some ccTLDs without the object of targeting state, and for tracking or to get service or present specific type of content.. baseed on the image you decide to use, the state of your websites..  Read more