SearchEngineJournal.com published a piece on how Google treats.ai. As most know .ai domains have been doing very well this year as far as sales. .Ai sales in 2023 have already surpassed the full year of 2022.
This is the question that was asked:
“Should a global company use the .ai domain as their gTLD or is it considered by Google as a ccTLD for the country of Anguilla?”
Google’s Gary Illyes offers what might seem like a surprising answer.
Gary’s response:
“As of early June, 2023, we treat .ai as a gTLD in Google Search, so yeah, you can use it for your global presence!”
The author was surprised because he thought that Google was treating .ai like a gTLD far earlier than June of 2023.
SearchEngineJournal.com is focused on SEO so readers are concerned about ranking and improving rankings in the search engines. The author rightly pointed out that it’s important to know if the extension you are using will allow for global rankings.
The “treatment” is a little bit overdue. Google should have done that at least 2-3 years ago.