: Duplicate domain names? Let's say that there is already a niche website on the internet called: http://fruitblenders.info Then if I want to register... http://fruitblenders.co ...but have my own/original

@Smith883

No... it won't impact.
Content is master & is one of key driver for SEO & promoting ranking.

Just follow SEO guidelines & proper meta desciptions & tiles.

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@Radia820

Local Rankings
It may affect your rankings if its a local business name as this would effect the unstructured data (Just company name mentions, locally, or at least confuse Google a little.)

Web Rankings
If your website is aimed for everyone across the globe then definitely not, Google will treat your site as a new site and not even factor in the other site - otherwise what would be the point in different domain types, i.e. .net .org .com .co? Google wouldn't go down too well with ICANN and all the other registrars if this was the case.

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