closed voyeur.com.cn

mastmnds · Dec 15, 2002

voyeur gets half mill searches too

wwww · Dec 15, 2002

nice one

...but only 331471 searches on overture...

mastmnds · Dec 15, 2002

oops sorry how muc you think this name is worth or when the value will jump up?

DomainPairs · Dec 15, 2002

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.

domainAddict · Dec 15, 2002

whats cn ?

izopod · Dec 15, 2002

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.

izopod

GiantDomains · Dec 15, 2002

the chinese dont even use these...they use .com

mastmnds · Dec 15, 2002

well whos says this has to be just for chinese market some people just want the name .

mastmnds · Dec 15, 2002

also izopod your comment was in wrong thread this is not recipe.com.cn

garyted51 · Dec 15, 2002

izopod · Dec 15, 2002

Originally posted by mastmnds
also izopod your comment was in wrong thread this is not recipe.com.cn

You didn't read my opening comment. I had cut and pasted my comments from another thread about "recipe.com.cn" so I didn't have to re-type it in this thread about "voyeur.com.cn".

To each is own..

izopod

mastmnds · Dec 15, 2002

oh ok sorry about that

GiantDomains · Dec 15, 2002

Originally posted by mastmnds
well whos says this has to be just for chinese market some people just want the name .

good luck with it.

Brujah · Dec 15, 2002

I think they'll have very little resale value but they'll be nice for search engine marketing.

izopod · Dec 15, 2002

Originally posted by Brujah
I think they'll have very little resale value but they'll be nice for search engine marketing.

I disagree. How many other 3rd level country domains have you seen at the top of SE rankings. Haven't seen very many .com.nz's, and .com.au's at the top of SE searches...

SE ranking has more to do with who is linking to you then ever before. Keep this in mind.

izopod

beatz · Dec 15, 2002

Also, you can reg a third level name at cbj.net(or is it cjb.net) for free - same effect as far as SE optimizing goes.

TrafficMonsterRRR · Dec 18, 2002

I do not think it is fair to compare name.cjb.net to name.com.cn

For one I doubt there is group solidarity associated with cjb.net as there would be for China. Not to mention membership numbers.

Even though most Chinese users may by used to typing [name].com today, there may come a day when they will look for web sites closer to home (.cn) who are conceivably operated by Chinese or are sensitive to Chinese needs. Also, who said [name].com.cn is strictly for the Chinese? I think it is very memorable and easily branded to any users.

For general branding, .com.cn could even be associated with "Commercial Communication Network", technically.

We ll just wait and see. I do remember the first day .us was released and everybody was saying "whatever".