co.cc domains What are they?
As I was doing my research into this Taheed guy and his scam website: www.buyfollowers.co.cc It got me wondering what the end of the domain (co.cc) was and where it came from, and I ran accross the following article: http://www.dailyblogtips.com/google-removed-all-co-cc-domains-from-its-index/
Here is an exerpt from that article:
"yesterday Google confirmed it is removing all the .co.cc domains and websites from its index (i.e., they will not show anymore on any search query, so those domains will not receive any more traffic from Google). The reason is that the majority of the sites using that extension are spammy.
If you are wondering, .co.cc is not a recognized top level domain (as .com or .co.uk are). Instead it’s the domain name of a private company located in Korea, and that is why Google considered it a free hosting provider and blocked it completely"
So there you have it. If you see website domains that end with co.cc, be very careful about using them or buying anything off these sites.
Good luck and happy marketing!
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Comments (12)
Arek White2
Freelancer
Yes you are right because now google considered co.cc domains are spam.
Nikita Dubey4
Internet Marketer
there are various co.cc sites for social bookmarking and later google blocked all of the sites which are having co.cc because most of the spams are from those sites. Later-on google unblocked these sites.
Rizwan Iftikhar8
Web Designer Online Data entry work
how it could be
Ross Will help you7
Helping People Make Money
Am cool with that and in a way happy they removed from Google Google just clogs up so much stuff its un real and there Google analyse of sites can often give blank page i hate Google with a passion at times lol
Laura Newton9
The Water Filter Lady
"just because a website is using co.cc does not mean its a total scam" @Ross...no where does it say in that article that co.cc domains are total scams...but if google removed all the co.cc domains from their index, it would be a good idea not to use them or frequent them. Get my drift?
Korey S.6
Internet Business Marketer
Ross, why even reply? I can see why this is. A lot of scammers are quick to use co.cc domains as well as .tk domains. I personally have used .tk domains, do not like dot.tk terms of use.
Buy a domain and with cheap unlimited hosting, use sub domains for individual page addresses.
Ross Will help you7
Helping People Make Money
just because a website is using co.cc does not mean its a total scam i use free domain name provides a lot of the time to start projects out sand if i see i build custom off them i then move to a paid domain name like .co.uk or .com or .net.
Yes there are many sites out there that are indeed a scam be not 100% of .co.cc will be a scam many use it even i do. Does that mean i scam because i use a free domain name provider ?
Irfan Khan3
employe
actually i think only top level domain are .com, .co or .uk
this is scam i think
Laura Newton9
The Water Filter Lady
Not sure what all that means, but Thank you Joe.
Joseph L.7
Freelancer
Friend Laura here is the list of authorized registrars by ICANN can be found at: http://www.icann.org/registrars/accredited-list.html
Rob aka Cerberus17
Better World Partisan
You are very welcome, Laura - I just thought scams shouldn't be "promoted" while being brought into awareness of fellow APSense members. ;-)
Laura Newton9
The Water Filter Lady
All links to the co.cc scam sites have been removed and are no longer clickable links. Thank you Rob for pointing that out to me.