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yes, lol, he was missing the absolute elephant in the room. if your business operate in france or germany you better have and use the .fr or .de domain, or at least the .eu one. big brands do it (such amazon, google, apple) so do you.

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> big brands do it (such amazon, google, apple) so do you.

A few counterpoints:

- https://www.fnac.com/

- https://www.ikea.com/nl/nl/

- https://www.apple.com/nl/

Where the web site resides goes in waves; sometimes people diverge it out into multiple sites based on ccTLD, and sometimes they redirect all ccTLDs into one central site with sub-pages. But you can bet they will always be keeping the ccTLD domains registered. I.e. FNAC still owns fnac.nl, Apple still owns apple.nl and IKEA still owns ikea.nl, and if you go there you will be redirected to the correct web page.

>FNAC still owns fnac.nl [...] and if you go there you will be redirected to the correct web page.

That doesn't seem correct

>ping fnac.nl

>Pinging fnac.nl [165.160.15.20] with 32 bytes of data:

>Request timed out.

If you'd tried going to fnac.nl or say use curl for a http request you'd see that it is in fact correct. Ping does not a http request make as they said in the olden days.

I did try going to fnac.nl on my web browser and it does not load. And it still isn't loading for me while fnac.com does.

Edit: it does load after some time on my web browser.

ikea.fr, .de, .nl all exist and redirect to ikea.com subdomains. Same for apple.com

That doesn't necessarily mean the domains are controlled by these entities.

Imagine a sleeper domain squatter.

but still https://www.ikea.nl and https://www.apple.nl

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