Difference between Open site Explorer's Root Domain and Basic SERP Report's Linking Root Domain?

[surabhi6]

Why show different Linking Root Domain open site explorer and SERP of any websites? Open Site explorer show different linking root domain and Basic SERP Report show different linking root domain of any website url, who is the correct and why it is show  different linking root domain?

[ErinMcCaul]

Hi there!

Thanks for reaching out! My name is Erin, and I'm on the Help Team here at Moz. In order to help you troubleshoot this, I'm going to need a little more information. Can you email us at help@moz.com and let us know the domain you're referring to? Once we have that, we'll be able to look into this further!

Cheers,

Erin