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How to get organic growth in website. Don’t use these TLDs for SEO.
List of Malicious Top Level Domains. Things to avoid to get organic growth. SEO of Website.

Link – https://www.semrush.com/blog/will-using-alternate-tlds-affect-your-seo-negatively/

According to Domains Index, there are now about 1,500 top-level domains being used worldwide, with about 31,063,341 domain names registered in a new-gTLD. Unfortunately, a handful of gTLDswere associated with spam pages, including but not limited to ‘.biz’, ‘.info’, ‘.zip’, and ‘.review’.

By using an alternative gTLDs, there is a risk that your target visitors might view your site as illegitimate or straight up harmful.

With this in mind, below are the top 10 extensions you should avoid:

Bad TLDs
Source: bluecoat.com
Although Google confirms that alternative gTLDs do not directly affect a website’s search rankings, they might influence the audience’s perception of a brand — therefore affecting the brand’s click-through rate.

Remember that the domain name is one of the things new visitors use to gauge a brand’s credibility. Most SEO experts recommend the ‘.com’ TLD because most — if not all — users are familiar with it. Just take a look at the domains of gargantuan brands like Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft.

There is, however, a silver lining to alternative gTLDs: they can help make your domain name more meaningful and industry-specific. For example, ‘.tech’ and ‘.io’ domains are now trending for both startups and tech sites.

If a user searches for something that they expect from a credible source of tech-related information, they will be more willing to click a site with the ‘.tech’ or ‘.io’ extension.

In some situations, using a specific gTLD can also complement your branding effort. For example, the ‘.me’ gTLD can match a site with an action-oriented domain name: