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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.

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

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?

If you download the csv file for the crawl you can sort it by http status to get all of the 404 errors together.  Then there is a specific column that contains the referrer that provides the information you are after.

If you download the csv file for the crawl you can sort it by http status to get all of the 404 errors together.  Then there is a specific column that contains the referrer that provides the information you are after.