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Well, have you landed on a site with an .hk extension? It is advisable to better close the website and search for another website. Your computer can end up with a whole lot of malwares, adwares and spywares.

A recent report from McAfee reports that19.2 percent of all websites that ended with the .hk domain was posing a security threat to web users. China follows the list of dangerous domains with 11 percent of sites in .cn posing a security threat.

Finland with .fi extension is listed as the safest online destination with only 0.05 percent of its domains posing a security threat. This position was previously held by Ireland with .is domain extension. Japan holds the second position for the second safest destination on the internet with its .jp extension.

These reports by McAfee were based on an analysis of 9.9 million heavily-trafficked websites from 265 different countries.

The report also provided some serious issues in the internet.
-Sites claiming free ringtones and screensavers actually load viruses, adwares and spywares in them. This has increased to 4.7 percent in 2008, a 1.4 percent increase from 2007.
- Chances of downloading an adware, virus or a spyware from a website have increased to a whooping 41.5% over the year 2007.

Google has planned to stop revenues from Adsense if the domain is less than five days old. This policy if implemented would be a disaster to websites who earn millions of dollars using the AGP or the Add Grace Period method. This is expected to be implemented before the month of March.

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Does buying multiple domains help improve search engine rankings? Link building being a major step in SEO companies and optimizers have sort after purchasing multiple domains to increase their rankings. Using this strategy they tend to quickly increase quality links from .org, .net and other domains useful for ranking.

However, claims are that “Google resets all backward links to a site once it knows that the domain has been expired or reset.”

Now, how about if the site expires when no one is aware or it happens accidentally? What if the domain is transfered? We do not have much information about this. However, Matt does mention not to register unrelated domains in an attempt to get those pre-existing links to your account.