.cc Domain Search

No. .cc has been open to anyone in the world since 1997 with no residency or nationality requirement, which is why there are millions of registrations against a territory of around 600 people.

Officially it is the country code for the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. In practice people read it as creative commons, carbon copy, or simply the initials of a company, which is exactly why it gets registered.

No. Google treats .cc as a generic extension rather than a country-specific one, so it will not tie your site to a particular region in search results.

arduino.cc, the open-source electronics platform, runs its main site on the extension, and tiny.cc is a long-running link shortener. Both have used .cc for well over a decade.

It has a long-standing reputation for it, and our own data gives the reputation some support: around six in ten new .cc names contain a digit, which is the usual signature of bulk registration. If you plan to send email from the domain, test deliverability before you commit to it.

eNIC, a Verisign subsidiary, on behalf of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Verisign acquired the registry in 2001 and also operates .com and .net.

Length. Two letters is shorter than any generic extension, which matters for link shorteners, for anything typed often, and for names where the whole address needs to stay compact.

There is no practical history of that happening. The registry has been commercially operated with worldwide open registration since 1997 and by Verisign since 2001.

Typically somewhere between a few dollars and around twenty a year depending on the registrar, with renewal prices closer to registration prices than on the heavily discounted new extensions.

It is a reasonable one if you want something short and the .com is gone, particularly for a technical or creative project. It is a weaker choice if your audience is mainstream consumers, who are less likely to recognise it.