: Just on the subject of domain extensions, I worry that Russian and Spanish visitors may be confused by being required to use the .ie domain. Is there a particular reason to keep the .ie

@Lee4591628

Just on the subject of domain extensions, I worry that Russian and Spanish visitors may be confused by being required to use the .ie domain. Is there a particular reason to keep the .ie but not the .es or .ru domains?

Moving all three to a .com (or other generic TLD) may be more sensible. This serves a few benefits:


A generic TLD can make your site feel more international.
Instead of "preferring" one subset of visitors over the others, all visitors in current and future regions will be treated equally.
Moving Russian & Spanish visitors to an irrelevant regional TLD could cause not only confusion, but could potentially harm your rankings by serving content which doesn't match the region of the domain.

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