If you’ve registered an .rs domain (Serbia’s new TLD), you may be having trouble getting Google Webmaster Tools to verify your domain. There is a thread on Google Groups about this, and it seems the last development is that the Google team is to look into this issue in more detail, and hopefully resolve it soon. Found this on Search Engine Roundtable, so kudos to rustybrick for picking this up.

The .rs domain has been announced last October, and the official activation of the new TLD was on March 10, 2008. The former .yu TLD has automatically been replaced by .rs for those already in ownership of .yu and .co.yu domains. The automatic transition has yielded a somewhat unexpected effect. This doesn’t mean .rs sites are not getting indexed, on the contrary, the issue involves only Google Webmaster Tools.

More information about the .rs domain can be found on the official RNIDS site (Registry of National Internet Domain of Serbia). In case you are interested in a .rs domain, foreign nationals are allowed to register an .rs domain, as long as the administrative contact is from Serbia. Here’s a list of accredited registrars for .rs .

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