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Originally Posted by jacksonm
Nick, french has got to be the most controversial language on the forum. I really do not understand why. Several of the players in the french arena are fairly ill behaved folks, just use the search function for "french" or "francophone" or "senegal" or "dabsi" and you will see what I mean.
I consider french just as much an opportunity as anything else, and only wish I had some more good french domains.
As it is, I only managed to pick up some weak stuff like:
crèmebrûlée.com
côtedor.com
soufflé.com
rémy.net
discothèque.net
That's about the extent of my french portfolio! A couple of them even potentially have TM issues, depending on how they are used.
Anyhow, I think any language tips from native speakers is highly appreciated.
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Yeah I was quite aware of the Dabsi affair before registering here. I had been following this board for a while before I finally created an account. I think it is a shame for any language or script market to have ill-repute people representing a part of it. Still, I think this place has a lot of serious and interesting people, but most important: you guys are knowledgable! I'll be staying over here because of that
. I'm willing to learn too.
As for your french names, they aren't that weak. The only one I see as problematic concerning development is soufflé. The rest offers good end-user sale opportunity (as long as no tm infriging content) and also a few development opportunities.
Crème Brûlée is a very popular recipe. Very easy to create a website with recipe and variations, pictures and user opinions.
Côte d'or is a Bourgogne department. I see tons of possibilities here. Be aware of the TM though.
Soufflé will be pretty hard to get off the ground for it is first interpretted as a past tense conjugated verb... I see this more as a novelty name. I think the best would be to use it as a short hand for "verre soufflé" which is the art of blown glass. Maybe an e-mag or a site with pictures of that. There is always a way out
Rémy is a not so used first name AND last name. Still, a few end user possibilities I guess.
Discothèque is pretty good name! It's pretty easy to see what can be done with this.
Here is a tip for all of you guys : words that end with é, ée, és and ées are almost never nouns, mostly past tense conjugated verbs, which isn't good. If you wanna be safe, steer away from them.
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Originally Posted by IDNCowboy
I think we need to see more traffic on our unhyphenated idns before we invest in hyphenated ones.
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I agree type-in traffic is pretty much on the low side for the moment for almost any french or even latin IDNs. However, from what I gather from my stats, my hyphenated words do as good as my regular words, one of them even does better than average. So I must disagree with that statement. But like in mentionned in my original post, hyphenated keyword combos really aren't good, so nobody should really be investing in them. If you meant hyphenated keyword combos, then I agree with what you said.
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Originally Posted by tgtbtu2
However it's interesting to compare same ascii with idn.
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Very true. It is one of the keys to latin IDNs. Thanks for sharing stats. I LOVE stats
Also thanks to Asiaplay, jacksonm, thefabfive ans sunsei21 for the kind words. Appreciated really.
Nick