How is domain authority related to country top level domains?

[MichaelCorfman]

I've noticed that for some country top level domains (tld) the domain authority returned by open site explorer is based on the domain that has been registered within the tld.

For example, domainname.co.uk provides a domain authority specific to the domain.

However, for some other country top level domains, this does not appear to be the case.  Examples I have found include:

domainname.co.nr

domainname.co.pt

domainname.co.ee

For these top level domains the domain authority seems to be the same for every domainname, seemingly implying the domain authority is for the top level domain itself rather than for the domain.

Is this a common situation for many country top level domains, so that what I see going in here is the tip of a large iceberg, or does this situation just apply to a very isolated set of country top level domains?

[ChiarynMiranda]

Hey Michael,

Thanks for your patience. I've heard back from the engineers and it looks like like co.pt, co.nr, and co.ee are registrars and not official cctlds. Technically, those co.pt, co.nr, and co.ee would be considered root domains that sell hosting to "subdomains" such as blackjackonline or roleta, etc. Given this, we are actually presenting root domain info correctly.

We are planning on creating subdomain based metrics for pages like these to make the information more relevant to the site being researched in the future. I hope this clears things up a bit. Let me know if you have any other questions.

-Chiaryn

[ChiarynMiranda]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for following up with these great examples! Unfortunately, it looks like you're right; our index is considering co.pt or co.nr to be the domain, rather than blackjackinline or roleta online (etc.).

I'm going to send this information to our engineers so we can work on getting this information corrected in the index. I'm afraid it may take some time to fix this issue and we most likely won't be able to resolve the problem for the current index. I'm really sorry about that!

Please let me know if I can help you with anything else in the meantime.

-Chiaryn

[MichaelCorfman]

Chiaryn,

So, I did a little more research on my own, and discovered that the top level domains I had found are not listed in the public suffix list at publicsuffix.org.  So at least I now know that this issue is perhaps related to that fact.  But still, I think it makes sense for you to know in your database of top level domains that these should be included since right now it does cause your domain authority ranks for domains registered in that form to be incorrect.  And it might be that you folks have the right connections to have the the public suffix list updated if you are a consumer of that list for your services.

Michael.

[MichaelCorfman]

Hi Chiaryn,

Here are some example sites that look to me like they are being treated as subdomains rather than separate domains:

www.pokerbandits.co.nr and pokerscult.co.nr (domain authority of 84 - note that only one of these is in your index, but the domain authority is listed as the same for both sites)

blackjackonline.co.pt and www.casinoonline.co.pt and roleta.co.pt (domain authority 65 for all three)

www.onlinecasinoreports.co.ee and www.pokerlistings.co.ee (both have a domain authority 60)

Hope that helps.

Michael

[ChiarynMiranda]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for writing in with a great question. It would be really helpful if you could provide me with some specific examples of domains you are looking for the .co.nr, .co.pt, and .co.ee TLDs so I can look into this more directly. It will really help me investigate your question to have more specific examples.

If you aren't comfortable sharing the domain information here in the public forum, please let me know and I will create a private support email for you.

I look forward to hearing back soon.

-Chiaryn