Has Alexa changed the way they work?

On The India Street (http://www.theindiastreet.com/ ) I read,

I’m not surprised by our winner but I am stunned by how close Rediff Classifieds came to Craigslist India in terms of page view Rank. According to Alexa, Craigslist India is about 46^th most popular while Rediff Classifieds finishes a respectable 105; not bad for a site that doesn’t focus on classified advertising.

To the best of my knowledge Alexa doesn’t publish ranks of domains and sub-domains separately. It simply publishes the Alexa rank of the domain. For e.g. The rank of www.oneindia.in and thatskannada.oneindia.in is the same because it is ranking oneindia.in as a whole and not the sub-domains individually.

In that posting (http://www.theindiastreet.com/2007/08/craigslist-tops-india-business.html) only click.in and kijiji.in are the only pure-play classified sites. So the Alexa numbers of these sites reflect pure “online classified” numbers/rankings.