.in and .co.in domains seem like they are eventually going to be worth big money. I know it might not be for a few years (or more) but they seem like a great investment.
What are the arguments against these domains taking off?
What past ccTLDs support or do not support the idea that India's extensions will grow in value?
* several INDRP decisions have awarded high-quality domains based on very weak cases by complainants. Further, parking is generally viewed as bad faith usage.
* ambiguous and/or unenforced rules about adult names. Uncertainty about such issues has a chilling effect on related names (or even possibly risque names or sex education content) in the market.
* Indian trademark search (to avoid infringing on existing claims) is expensive. Online search is offered as a pay-per-search service. Further, the website rarely works.
* Competing second and third level cctld (.co.in, net.in, .in), etc. I personally don't mind this one -- while it does moderate prices; it also allows less wealthy end users to obtain high quality names.
It's worth noting that most ccTLDs experience some level of uncertainty, i.e. .cn and the Chinese government's involvement. I honestly believe that the .in space has less uncertainty than many comparable cctld options.
I think John has hit the nail on the head. Can't explain any better.
There is one more related but unmentioned problem I might add - Indian TMs are not yet enforced viz domains and .co.in *might* just be a target when they are, maybe not though.
Fact #1 - LLL.in are sold out - LLL.co.in are far from it.
Fact #2 - International websites / domainers prefer .in over .co.in anyday
Fact #3 - even -ing & -ed words for .in are regged, even the basic keywords are available in .co.in
I could go on, but those thinking .co.in will beat .in in whatever sense are deluding themselves, as well as their followers.
IMO there are so many nice .ins and co.ins still available for reg fee. Now just $4 per one. If someone takes a bunch of nice .ins and co.ins no doubts some of them will be sold either to end user or at aftermarket which will be created soon. Even if many of names have TM issues (in case of INDRP not always unambiguous btw), .in and co.in investors will have profit from the rest because as I said so many valuable/traffic names available. One billion population, great and fastly developing market - in one-two years .ins and co.ins will be gold ones IMO. Some NP members including me sold .ins for thousands of dollars last months, so just one good sale can compensate all investments/possible losses and bring profit. And as to TM issues there is always possiblity to make nonprofit India-oriented minisites on most valuable names. But just my 0.02 rupee
I don't see reg fee as being any parameter of sales price.
I've sold a few domains here for $18-$45 ea. which everyone knows I registered a few days back, the price was paid based on the value of the domain to the buyer (resellers in this case) - not based on higher or lower reg fees.
.in extention seems to work 50-50 for search engines i.e. when searching for a domain by "XXXXXX.in" , it will ignore .in but will display in as englsh word.
Whereas i is good when person is searching for something like .... Houses.Situated.in etc that completes a sentence....
that`s because some domainers regged everything.....talk me about traffic and local use....this risk to be another dead horse like .us , very good looking but the locals don`t use it.
.com was born in US, so US are used to it.... US for them was just an option which they least used .... Also, as compared to Indian population, .us is no match.. IMHO
Do you guys realize that the reason that .us is where it is today is that the US public views .com as their ".us". The US is the only country in the world where their ccTLD is not widely, in comparison to .com or .net, used because the mind-share of .com came first.
In India, China, the UK, and everywhere else in the world, people knew .com, but they also knew their ccTLD at the same time. I do think that .us is undervalued dramatically, but the undervaluation of .us doesn't coincide with where the .in market is right now. It's actually the opposite.
