Country Specific .com Names

[empservices]

Hi All,

I'm trying to decide whether to use a domain name with the county code at the front or the back of the domain.

eg: Lets assume we are selling French Widgets. Would the best domain name be:

1) frwidgets.com
or
2) widgetsfr.com

Also both the hyphenated and unhyphenated versions are available so I'm going to go for the one without hyphens.

Any suggestions welcome.

 

[Biggie]

neither

use frenchwidgets, as fr could be anything

imo...

 

[Bill Roy]

If it is in English then it is definitely better to name the country first, FrWidgets, for this is how it is said, however, 'Biggie' makes a good point about using the whole name of the country, if possible.

 

[RTM.net]

A bit late to this discussion, and I agree with using the whole word of the country (or language) of the widgets - I would add that it's important also to order the term in the correct grammatical term used by the target country - language. So in french, it would be WidgetsFrancais...com or WidgetsFrancaises.com or WidgetsFrance.com