Originally posted by DomainPairs
I don't see how you are going to keep surfers with it. Most surfers of adult sites expect to find a .com and I suspect they will be blind to the .cn following it. I think you'll lose a lot of traffic to voyeur.com, so you might be better off with an inferior name that keeps your traffic.
Here are my comments about "Recipe.com.cn" if you missed them on that thread. Hopefully this will shed some light.
Couple of things that just don't seem right about these ".com.cn" names. The marketing of these names have been about "attracting a large Chinese population with a '.com.cn" site. Forgive me for appearing to be a bit crass, but I don't think the chinese will think to type-in ..."recipes.com.cn" to go to a "recipe" site.... It will be something like "$&%&^#*&.com.cn" or "hungsyshe.com.cn"--roman character translation of recipe.
Until they figure out a real solution with the "Asian Character" problem, I think it's utterly disgraceful to market a "Roman-Character" chinese domain name...It's actually very laughable to say the least. My guess is the powers to be are trying to "make" global companies and domainers buy more names they don't need.
Some words of advice:
If you do manage to build a web site to attract this "large chinese audience" at the very least it should be tailored to the chinese which means you best not have "roman characters" on the site, otherwise you might as well flush your money down the toilet. Global companies with chinese related sites spend billions each year to insure the sites they create for this market "work". What works in the U.K or US doesn't necessarily work for the chinese.
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