Do some domain extensions rank better than others?
 

Of course dot com is gold standard

What about dot live etc do they not rank aswell in Google?

Do a Google search for your key words. All I see are .com

Only gov and edu have advantage, everything else rank same.

I see .tv.. even .one and some .io to be fair

it makes a difference of course.

.com, .net etc are internationally acclaimed and will always have seo advantage.

all those shitty 4+ letter extensions are "products" owned and sold by companies which are private businesses and google doesn't like to advertise for free.

also all those shitty 4+ letter extensions have ~$1 register and ~$20-30 renewal fees which makes them convenient for spammers - register a bunch for 1 year and just let expire when not needed.

Mostly... but can be just because people that are serious about their project and capable to build quality sites just prefer .com and ignore shitty extensions. Anyway there are definitely sites on shitty domain extensions that rank well.

So wait - did they lie to us when they said .xxx was going to be better than .com?? LOL

Do people still buy .xxx?

All extensions seem to enjoy equal ranking consideration by big search engines, as the content of the destination is most significant.

From a web visitor's perspective, .COMs are often considered legacy classics that have been around for a while (higher trust factor).

Some of the best .COMs have been taken, so alt extensions are used by newer sites.

None of the above is always the case.

:2 cents:

That was the thought if age verification came in and all adult sites needed to be on .xxx :helpme