Canadian construction company using .CN!

[snicksnack]

you never know maybe the company is owned by a Chinese immigrant

[dominator]

if a chinese company has a few jobs in canada, (but is based in china), then .cn would be ok

but this is a canadian company with only a canadian address
(no chinese address)

[nameslave]

I guess non-Canadians may not be aware of it: British Columbia is basically an Asian-Pacific country. And if you have ever been to Vancouver, you will notice that Chinese are NOT just a minority there; its last mayor (Sam Sullivan) actually speaks and reads Chinese. THIS is probably one of the reasons they picked a .CN domain.

[copper]

whoa
Check their keywords in keyword meta tag.
Talk about keyword spamming

[Doc Com]

Originally Posted by copper

whoa
Check their keywords in keyword meta tag.
Talk about keyword spamming

Yeah, I noticed that the other night. About a page long.

[Jacksplat]

Nameslave said my thoughts exactly. B.C. and parts of T.O. are populated heavily by aisians. Many of which can barely speak english and get along just fine in their everyday life.

As for Coastal .ca being available... That was covered too. coastal.ab.ca and coastal.ns.ca are registered, the .ab.ca one is regged 'till 2018 in fact. Fat chance they have an opportunity at getting the .bc version. They'de need permision from the .ns and .ab to get the .bc. ... Strangely enough it looks like a domainer owns CoastalBC.ca .. his park pages have ads appropriate too so I doubt the coastal const. comp. can have any luck at snapping it up from him.

I'd say if they have good asian clientelle then having the .cn is just fine. And to be frank about the whole matter, This company looks like it doesn't need a website to help it along.

.ca could have easily been the extension for California while Canada could have used either .can or .cn .. In Canada .ca is widely known as a Canadian ccTLD at this point. The media is loaded with .ca in webaddress' ..

I'm willing to bet that if any of you ask me in 6 months from now what the url for coastal contstruction in victoria bc is, I'll reply with the correct answer without having to look it up.

burp!

[Zoobar]

They've built a niche.

[amcdonald]

i see it from time to time. i also know of another canadian construction company using a .CC

[dewd]

thats interesting....iv seen a few places with a " .to " domain

[dominator]

Originally Posted by nameslave

I guess non-Canadians may not be aware of it: British Columbia is basically an Asian-Pacific country.

that is true but it does not matter

bc consumers search primarily .ca and .com, because this is their market
as well as quebec consumers
(not .fr, even though they speak french)

Originally Posted by Jacksplat

I'd say if they have good asian clientelle then having the .cn is just fine.

it is not fine

they are not based in china
they have no chinese address
(and brad johnson is not a chinese name)

even hong kong uses its own tld
(and they also speak chinese)

of course it is "fine" to register any tld
but from the marketing point it is not
and that is what we are talking about