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.edu domain name

by mroyusa
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Where do you buy a .edu domain name, what registrar offers .edu names?
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  • Profile picture of the author WillR
    Originally Posted by mroyusa View Post

    Where do you buy a .edu domain name, what registrar offers .edu names?
    Taken straight from wikipedia:

    "The domain name edu is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Its name is derived from education, indicating its intended use as a name space for educational institutions, primarily those in the United States.[1] Although not officially mandated for much of the domain's existence, in practice it has been used primarily for U.S.-based four-year universities. Starting in 2001, it was officially restricted to accredited post-secondary institutions and organizations that are accredited by nationally recognized accrediting agencies."

    This is why Google gives more authority to a lot of .edu domains because not any tom, dick and harry can register one. Are you an education institution?
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  • Profile picture of the author Dean Dune
    Yeah, you have to be registered with the US Department of Education as a school to qualify.

    But if that does happen to be what you'll have, here is where you go to register:

    Request a new .edu domain
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  • Profile picture of the author Mrsparrow
    You can't really register and .edu domain name but if you really want one it's possible to purchase it.

    On several forums there are people who have access to .edu domain names and they are willing to sell them to you. However it's quite risky because they are not allowed to sell, so if they get found out, your domain could be cancelled.

    I think you should focus only on getting .edu links, which is much easier to do.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Remember, too, that being a .edu domain, in itself, isn't what makes the backlinks worth any more.

      Many .edu domains are authority and/or high-PR pages, and that's what makes them worth more - not their domain extension.

      Correlation is not causation.

      A newly registered .edu domain isn't in itself "worth anything extra". If you can get backlinks from a context-relevant and/or high-PR .edu site, those are certainly very good backlinks. But not (contrary to what a lot of people would like you to believe!) because they're on a .edu domain.

      I have some .edu blogs myself, and I assure you the backlinks from those are nothing special at all. You have to work just as hard with them as you do with anything else, because domain extensions don't in themselves affect SEO/ranking. There's a lot of misguided "information" about this subject: it's just one of those subjects in internet marketing in which the consensus view is a somewhat misinformed one.
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  • Profile picture of the author tamalanwar
    As I was reading it from a pro link builder's portfolio, .edu domains are not like regular .com domains and they rank differently + they give 100times more value than any regular .com domain. {Please do correct me, if I am wrong}

    Just because it is only restricted to a special users, it is obvious that these sites are authority sites and pass more link juice than other domain extensions.

    Such as you run an educational institute and created a small blog in .edu -even if you do nothing in the site, you will be linked from edu directories, education boards and other sites who list you who are already having authority sites. The students will link the site and also pass it on to other means.

    I feel this is how .edu site works and gets higher authority position, and then passed good link value.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by tamalanwar View Post

      As I was reading it from a pro link builder's portfolio, .edu domains are not like regular .com domains and they rank differently + they give 100times more value than any regular .com domain. {Please do correct me, if I am wrong}
      Honestly, this is completely wrong. Domain extensions just do not affect SEO/ranking. Don't take my word for it: that's what Google and Matt Cutts say.

      It's true, of course, that 100 randomly selected .edu backlinks will be better than 100 randomly selected .com backlinks. Nobody can argue with this. But it's because some of the .edu backlinks will turn out also to be authority sites or on a higher-PR page.

      If you offer me a choice between a .edu backlink and a .com backlink, then of course I'll take the .edu backlink because, statistically, it's more likely to be an authority site and/or high-PR page than a .com backlink. But that's the only reason. The fact that it's .edu doesn't in itself make it worth any more than one on any other domain extension.

      Originally Posted by tamalanwar View Post

      Just because it is only restricted to a special users
      It's a nice-sounding theory, but this actually has little to do with it except in so far as it increases the chances of your backlink being from an authority site.

      Originally Posted by tamalanwar View Post

      it is obvious that these sites are authority sites and pass more link juice than other domain extensions.

      Some       of them are "authority sites", and those do pass more link-juice. But because they're authority sites, not because they're on a .edu extension.

      Backlinks from an authority site on a .com or any other domain are worth exactly the same.

      I have .edu blogs and .info blogs, and my .edu backlinks are worth exactly the same as my .info backlinks.

      The fact that a blog/forum/page/chat-group is on a domain from Harvard University doesn't help you much, if your link is on a non-context-relevant page with PR-0 on that site. Everyone just imagines that it "ought to".
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      • Profile picture of the author mike rylo
        I got an email from russel brunson just before xmas offering to rent .edu domains for, I think it was $100 per month, I deleted the email so can`t give any more details but it might be worth a look.
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