is .uk.com a legitimate domain extention or should i be cautious?

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I remember a while ago goolge just banned an entire tld off google serps. it wasnt a realy domain there was a domain out there called something like

www.xx.yy and it was essentially handing out subdomains and packaging them up as domains so you could get myname.xx.yy

Im concerned about .uk.com because the site that manages that told has a homepage which is UK.COM which begs the question are these guys doing the same?

Also the domain name is being sold by major registrars like 123reg.co.uk and getdotted.com (popular in UK)

I know that its not advisable to use these unusual tlds, the reason for me doing this is because I just want to do a link blast and need any old EMD, and a UK one is decent, the other tlds are gone. only uk.com is available
 


Uk.com, like eu.com, is the full domain. The TLD is .com. Any xx.com you buy is essentially an expensive sub domain of .xx.com. I don't believe it has any affect on your ranking, but then I am to SEO as The Pope is to looking after children.
 
thanks for the info, i was close to buying into the garbage until I went on the uk.com homepage and realised what they were actually peddling. Dissapointed with the registrars like 123reg who I thought were reputable, surprised they are peddling this crap.

I'd stay away, these are no good, they don't have EMD benefit in serps and also they are not governed by any authoritative bodies like NOMINET or ICANN, so who knows what the security of these domains are.
 
There are some good serps results with uk.com extension however imho is much better to buy co.uk even like yourphrase24.co.uk
 
You do tend to see a few of them ranking, but they are real aged businesses which have done quite a bit of link building, so I don't think they are getting much EMD benefit.
I think Joe Public wouldn't notice so CTR should be OK but I bet you will be sending returning traffic (type in) to the .com - that's the killer for me.
 
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