Would be a domain with .DE for Brazilian unproductive?
Turian da Silva Brazil Member (2011) English to Portuguese + ...
Dec 5, 2011
Dear All,
I want to find a Domain for my Translation firm. The .COM and .ORG Domains, that I wanted, are occupied.
The firm will be in Brasil (normally we use .COM or .COM.BR). So now I am think to use .DE, as I will concentrate my firm in Portuguese-German translations.
For Germany it is of course good to have .DE (DE means Deutschland - Germany).
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Would be the domain whit .DE for Brazilian unproductive?
Many many thanks for the answers
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Some country code top level domains are limited to resident citizens of the country in question, or companies registered in that country. You will have to check out the .de eligibility for companies registered in another country.
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Ana Crespo United States Local time: 01:45 Member (Apr 2012) English to Portuguese + ...
Both?
Dec 6, 2011
Hello Turian-
I am certainly no expert, but my gut-feeling tells me that, ideally, you would look for a website name that is available in both .com.br and .de, aand get both, so you would be able to access, more easily, clients in both countries. I do not know if it would be much more expensive to have both.
Good luck!
All the best...
Ana
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Stanislaw Czech United Kingdom Local time: 08:45 Member (2006) English to Polish + ...
IMHO DE will be OK
Dec 6, 2011
Especially that you are based in Berlin. It will also give you a better place in Google.de
Best Regards
S
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Turian da Silva Brazil Member (2011) English to Portuguese + ...
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thanks
Dec 6, 2011
Many thanks for the answer.
I actually thought, .de would be great for Germany and also for all Europe. But now I am living in Brazil and will also need my clients from here. And Brazilians just know things like .com, .com.br, .org and .net. They never had contact whit .es, .nl, .de etc.
That´s why I think .de for Brazil wouldnt be good...
best regards
turian
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Stanislaw Czech United Kingdom Local time: 08:45 Member (2006) English to Polish + ...
If you have moved
Dec 6, 2011
If you have moved to Brazil, the de domain won't be great - for example IMHO a Brazilian client who sees domain de will expect that you may be more expensive.
Most likely I would go for a website in German with de domain and another one in Portuguese with another domain. For example there are now global domains CO which are designed for business- they are quite expensive but many good ones are still free, if not than maybe BIZ or INFO?
Cheers
S
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Rudolf Vedo CT United States Local time: 02:45 Member (2008) Croatian to English + ...
Why limit yourself to one domain?
Dec 6, 2011
Domains are cheap. Buy as many as you think you need to work best for various markets and just re-direct them all to your website. No reason you can't have both .br and .de (or .eu) domains.
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SBL_UK/BR Brazil Local time: 04:45 Member (Apr 2012) English to Dutch + ...
two ways of seeing this
Dec 6, 2011
The first way is to see this like anyone would in the rest of the world: .de is just another extension. People might not know what the "de" stand for, but they will probably accept it. If your language pairs include German, it might not even be such a bad idea.
The second way to look at this, is the way (from my own experience with brazilians, having lived there for 6 years) brazilians will look at this. They won't have a clue what "de" stands for, won't give a toss, and - even after your explaining it a gazillion times to them - will consistently refuse to make the effort to "adopt" it. A lot of Brazilians still think that the "normal extension" is ".com.br", instead of ".com" and often wonder out loud why the rest of the world is so difficult and why they don't know what "orkut" is.
It speaks for itself, of course, that those in Brazil who work in the same language pair as you do and who actually have some grasp of what is happening beyond their borders, will know what it stands for, but something tells me that it is not these people you need to convince.
Bottom line: don't know if this will be productive, but have serious doubts. Practically speaking, I would tend to agree with Rudolf: if you can afford it, why limit yourself to one domain, but that is an entirely different issue from wanting to know if this will be productive or not.
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