Which tld to grab when aiming for specific country

[Mik]

Ok let's say a business in Australia wants to get a website to deal exclusively with the Australian market. Or a British business wants to service people in the United Kingdom. Or a Japanese company needs a website it will deploy in Japanese for the Japanese market etc. you get my drift. Basically if any business wanting to break into a specific geographic market online comes to you what would you tell them and why. This is not from a speculators or investors point of view aimed at ROI for themselves. I am looking for marketing oriented opinions that people would say to potential clients.

Personally i'd say go for the country specific tld, but what do I know.

 

[mole]

.info is very international friendly, Mik. I say go for that as a SE beacon for your other sites, whatever the extension.

.info = international information portal = search beacon

 

[mole]

aside ~~~~~

Don't worry about type-in value and all that crap. 90% of all traffic is generated through search engines and reciprocal links and blah blah. Targeted traffic is what everyone's after, not clueless traffic

 

[Mik]

mole with the question I was meaning a business wanting to conduct business online for those geographic markets. So .info should be out since it's not providing information, so i'll figure you put down .biz