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by daok 4798 days ago
May I know what does it do to be in the gccTLD list? Does it changes something for those website?
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mhaymo 4798 days ago
It means that Google will treat it as a worldwide website, as opposed to being country-specific. This means that .io domains are more likely to show up in US search results, and will no longer be given priority in "the British Indian Ocean Territory"[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io

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xSwag 4798 days ago
It means that it's treated the same as a .com and no longer treated as an Indian Ocean-specific website I believe.
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