.co.cc Domains Banned By Google

Google has banned all .co.cc sub-domains from it’s search results.Form now on we can not see websites that use .co.cc sub-domains in Google search results.Free .co.cc sub-domains are accused of spam and poor quality content sites.There are some more serious allegation of malware against many of these sites.Few months back Facebook also banned all .co.cc sub-domains from it’s site.

This action is believed to be a step by Google to address recent criticisms against it’s search engine.It’s in the line of getting rid of low-quality sites and to provide high- quality search results.
Matt Cutts, the Head of Google’s Web Spam team, wrote on Google +

“This article reminds me of a Google webspam point of policy that I’ve been meaning to discuss for a long time. First, a definition: a “freehost” is a domain that will let anyone register a site on that domain. There’s lots and lots of high-quality freehosts out there (wordpress.com comes to mind).
We absolutely do try to be granular, but I wanted to mention that if we see a very large fraction of sites on a specific freehost be spammy or low-quality, we do reserve the right to take action on the freehost as a whole. I think most savvy search/SEO folks would understand this completely, but I figure it’s better to over-communicate than under-communicate.”

Matt Cutts further clarified,

“This is not a new webspam policy. Other parts of Google do similar things. For example, http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2011/06/protecting-users-from-malware-hosted-on.html talks about “bulk sub-domain providers” (treat it as the same thing as a freehost) and they mention “To help protect users we recently modified those [malware scanning] systems to identify bulk sub-domain services which are being abused. In some severe cases our systems may now flag the whole bulk domain.”

Googler JohnMu gave some advice on Webmaster Central for co.cc sub-domain owners,

“If you feel that your particular site is in line with our Webmaster Guidelines, I would recommend submitting a reconsideration request. Additionally, if you use a subdomain on a widely used domain name, and feel that your subdomain provider is not up to par with regards to preventing and handling abuse quickly – be it webspam, phishing, or malware – you may wish to look into ways of remedying that.”

So,the bottom line is that beware of the freehosts.If you’re still using not-so-reputed freehosts,it’s time to find a Top Level Domain Names like .com,.org .

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