I really don't know where you got your statistics from or how did you research this, but I know you have got one thing wrong, and I'm 100% sure of it.

You said that .com domains will rank better than .edu - reality check man, NEVER. Simple fact that you can't just register .edu domain, but you actually have to be legal educational institution is reason enough for search engines to see .edu domain as authority compared to .com name - thus it will always rank higher. Also, when you do a research for your new project, if there are a lot of .edu or .gov webpages coming up in the search results, don't bother, give up and move to something else, you will never be able to rank well no matter how SEO smart you are.

With that said, if you made a basic mistake as that in your research, I have no choice but to question your entire article.

Hi,

is asta indexed by google? I don't know if I need explicitely to submit my domain name...