Geo-target .ag domain?

[bridhard8]

Hi Guys,

We are looking to purchase a .ag domain for a agriculture website, we want to target two countries Australia (primary) and United States.

So the main site e.g. www.farming.ag (will target Australia)

While the www.farming.ag/us/ sub-folder will target the United States

From my understanding through after reading this: https://www.name.com/domains/ag .ag is for countries Antigua and Barbuda. So i was wondering can you even geo-target to Aus or even the sub-folder to United States in search console?

Any advice would be very much appreciated!

Cheers.

[katemorris]

Sorry to tell you, .ag is not a recognized generic TLD. If you put your site on a ccTLD (country specific TLD), you cannot change the targeting to something outside of that country.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/62399?hl=en

That link as a list of ccTLDs that they see as generic like .io, but .ag is not one of them. You will need to use a different TLD, a generic one, for your plan to work.

[FedeEinhorn]

Any domain can be targeted to any country you want. Take for example the popular io TLD, which is assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory, however it has been adopted by tons of technology apps. Same happens with many other TLDs.