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(Entry was posted by Hardial Singh on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 01/18/2018).

Looking to change the domain in order to target international audience


Looking to change the domain in order to target international/US audience. Currently domain is
.is the top-level domain for Iceland. Would like to have some expert comments on following:

1. What are they key criteria that we need to evaluate when changing a company domain from a search, branding, and business process (like changing email accounts) perspective?

2. How important is using .com vs .net or .us from a search perspective and a branding perspective?

3. How does Google treat using numbers, like (1st) or hypens in domains, for example (abc-xyz-consulting.com)?
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