.gb.net domains good for SEO?

[SamCUK]

I've found a .gb.net domain with a highly competitive exact match term for sale. Do .gb.net domains rank well within google? Or are they considered not as authorative? Is it worth purchasing one?

[AlanBleiweiss]

Do you care to ever have people get directly to your site without having to search for it?  If so, consider how annoying, confusing or otherwise hard to remember having a convoluted TLD combination is.

Beyond that, you don't get extra bonus points for a .gb.net domain.  And if there's a .com domain with that exact match already in place, and that's been around and established with SEO for a while, the advantage goes to that established domain until you overcome it via other methods.

[MoosaHemani]

In terms of SEO there is no extra advantage of it! And at the same time this sounds a bit difficult. In my opinion the domain name should be short, simple and easy to remember instead of all this shortcut tactic…