Hello, I am starting a new website which will have an English and a Chinese version. Any advice on how to name the chinese domain name? Basically, I am wondering what is the most natural way to name a Chinese domain name for the audience that this site will target-- educators, students, teachers in high school and college. Would it make sense to have a domain name that was "XXX".com where "XXX" are placeholders for the Chinese characters that I can't type? Or should I just stick with an all English domain name. I would think that a domain name with Chinese characters would make more sense but I wonder if it would be bizarre to then tack on the English TLD ".com" on the end? I frankly don't know what Chinese websites and urls look like. I just tried googling Chinese websites and all of the ones that I found were written in Chinese but the urls themselves were the only thing in English. Any advice is appreciated.
I dont think you can use chinese characters in a .com name. I was thinking about doing the same thing and learned that your company must have at least 1 chinese employee to register a chinese .CN domain name. My company just registered a .asia domain name.
Absolutely owning the ChineseCharacters.com name would make the most sense if you're going to have a website in Chinese! I would say to reg that IDN.com name if it's still available.
You can actually just use the english domain name and make a subdomain for the chinese version. By the way, as i know what there is a chinese domain name as well which was launched since 2 years ago if not mistaken, you need to get someone know chinese to search the domain for you.
Use Pinyin, or numbers which sound similar to the pinyin... like 51job.com , 51 means "give me" The largest Chinese sites have just crated brands using short words, QQ.com , Anjuke.com , sohu.com etc... Send me a PM with your sites english name, and i can recommend some Chinese alternatives.
Agreed with htmlindex. To own a Chinese IDN for your website which site is target the Chinese market will be a plus. I'm a native Chinese, if you like to get my suggestion (about the Chinese name of your website), PM me.
My country was actually provide chinese domain name for free to testing. I wonder do it bring lot of traffic? i maybe park those chinese and english domain together to the same site. So i can target both languages.