.photo Domain Name

[Matsushime]

Search engines pull their hits from the page content, not the domain name. The top-level domain name becomes one of the attributes relating to the hits returned from a query. However, an advanced search can filter or restrict the query to a particular domain or website if they want to.

So essentially the .photo has no effect. It's all about the content and key-wording! ...well unless the one searching is doing an advanced search to filter it out. That doesn't seem too likely though.

[Doug Howk]

My understanding is that search engines rely on PageRanking algorithms for what pages to return. Google uses several indices to determine page ranking including number of links to a page from other sites. Less discussed is search traces. If you moved your site to another domain name (including tier change), those links and history would be missing.

[Jim Noel]

NO.I pulled down the web site even though I still had months to go. I had had enough of image theft and crank e-mails.