.IN or .CO.IN (Which did you get? Why?)

Premium · 02-23-2005, 06:01 PM

Hey PeePz

I saw everyone all excited over .in and the .co.in so I just grabbed a couple for a small investment.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/cctld-discussion/71744-in-co-did-you-get-why.html

What did you get .in or .co.in ? Which is better? Why?

Discuss people

Here's my list: .. Man when will I stop!!

bbb.co.in
investor.co.in
exercise.co.in
bbs.co.in

Think these are any good?

(One Available.. reporter.co.in ..Sent NP$ if u grab it

)

Regards,
Jarrod

IAmAllanShore · 02-23-2005, 06:02 PM

.in
Shorter, easier to remember, and sounds better, IMHO.
-Allan

Premium · 02-23-2005, 06:20 PM

Good Point, however look at .co.uk .. doing real good!~ Could .co.in get that great?

IAmAllanShore · 02-23-2005, 06:22 PM

Part of why .co.uk is doing so well, IMHO (I just realized how often I say "IMHO"... I better cut back, IMHO ;-) ), is because .uk isn't available. If it was available...
-Allan

Premium · 02-23-2005, 06:26 PM

Another good point.. heh.. but both work IMO.. we'll have to wait and see how they both do I guess..

Gregoire · 02-23-2005, 06:26 PM

Yes Allan, .in is shorter ... this is why I regged some .in (20+)

But .co.in is already known by indian websurfers as THE original Indian ccTLD, the one used by major companies for their Indian presence ...

Thousands of developped .co.in websites, just a few examples :

www.Google.co.in
www.MSN.co.in
www.Yahoo.co.in
www.Nokia.co.in
www.NationalGeographic.co.in
www.Epson.co.in
www.Orange.co.in
www.Zeiss.co.in
www.Alstom.co.in
www.BnpParibas.co.in
www.Colgate.co.in
www.Chevrolet.co.in
www.ThomasCook.co.in
www.Acer.co.in
www.Mercedes-Benz.co.in
www.Philips.co.in
www.Sony.co.in
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www.Netcore.co.in
www.Polaris.co.in
www.Sail.co.in
www.CentralBankOfIndia.co.in
www.SBI.co.in (State Bank of India)

Try the .in of these companies... you'll be surprised and you will understand why my .co.in names do get some traffic and why my .in names do not get any !

Now, do what you want

I you want a cool name, reg a .in, I love them.

But if you want to target the Indian market ... do not forget that .co.in is already famous.

The best idea is maybe to reg your name in both .in and .co.in and to redirect the .in to the well known .co.in

Grégoire.

WuLabsWuTecH · 02-23-2005, 06:46 PM

i'd get .in if i wanted a .in since it'd be targeted towards Americans and Europeans and not Inidans. If you were going for indian population, then co.in is appropriate, otherwise, the shorter the better

lind · 02-23-2005, 06:56 PM

I grabbed some .in, .co.in and (I guess I was the only one) some... .org.ins. And yes, as far as traffic is concerned, co.in works much better and I grabbed them all because of their gooood traffic. BTW my .org.in are getting quite nice traffic, too

I think nobody really knows which ext works better and which is easier to resell. I personally think that the Indian registry should not have released .in at all - I guess there is a lot of confusion because of the two major ccTLD s in use. With time, I'm sure only .in survives since it's shorter. The same would happen if .uk were released.

Dillpup · 02-23-2005, 07:58 PM

I think co.in,at least for now,is the best choice.Take this for example:
Today I was looking for generic,brandable, dictionary word .IN's and co.in's and thought "________.in" was an awesome name.(I do not want to reveal the name) I scrolled down at DD24 and saw the .co.in was taken but the .IN was not.I registered the .in version.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=71744
I then checked the WHOIS on the .co.in and it turns out they (a major technology company in Australia,Japan,and India) just registered it *yesterday*,meaning they had the choice of .co.in and .IN and they chose ONLY .co.in.They very easily could have registered both.Says alot about Indian preferences.
Not that I don't think .IN is good,it will probably catch on.I got a few of both..but like people have said,co.in is widely accepted already.

equity78 · 02-23-2005, 08:26 PM

Great Post Dill because as an outsider with regards to India I am trying to figure this out. SO would the Indian members of NP say that .co.in is more favorable? Thank you

Premium · 02-23-2005, 09:32 PM

Some fantastic thoughts and opinions shared into this thread. Thanks Everyone.. I would also like to know what the Indian people think about this as well and if they were to reg a domain which would it be.

I'm glad I got the .co.in domains now

wot · 02-23-2005, 09:41 PM

I got 240 .co.in and 55 .in , my offers are coming for .co.in and the traffic is huge 10,000 hits yesterday.

Please carry on regging the .in and let me get the real goodies.

LeeRyder · 02-23-2005, 09:45 PM

hmm..well I got Cum.co.in and Lee.co.in (dont laugh! Lee is taken in virtually everything by a company of one sort or another

) so hopefully these will payout at little

equity78 · 02-23-2005, 10:07 PM

WOT 10,000 Hits WOW

MissFlora · 02-23-2005, 10:20 PM

I can't help but to register flora.co.in (yes, I finally have a flora .ext!), language.co.in & mp3music.co.in. I don't know what're their value now, but they sure look ok for me to develop. Hehehe.

Flora.

equity78 · 02-23-2005, 10:52 PM

Nice names Flora IMO

MissFlora · 02-23-2005, 10:55 PM

Thanks equity

And I personally choose .co.in over .in because of its reg fees too. Hehehe..

Flora.

equity78 · 02-23-2005, 11:54 PM

My India domain regs

thong.co.in
ipo.co.in Initial Public Offering
mergers.co.in
publish.co.in
onlinepublishing.co.in
biology.co.in

pratiknaik · 02-24-2005, 12:31 AM

.in looks very generic while .co.in looks very Indian. So you may have some chances of selling .in in $$, but .co.in are most likely to be sold in Indian Rupees.

Mine are :

hackers.in
freaks.in
null.in - dev.null.in is my blog

flames.in
****ed.in
netline.in
alert.in
gui.in

-Pratik

taheny · 02-24-2005, 12:39 AM

My take:

Because of the previous difficulty registering co.in, most Indian companies used .com, .net or other top-level domain names. Relatively speaking, there weren't many co.in names registered. Now, with both the .in and co.in readily and easily available, companies will choose the .in.

Will be interesting to see how it pans out in 2 or 3 years time.

Premium · 02-24-2005, 08:03 AM

Originally Posted by Gregoire

Thousands of developped .co.in websites, just a few examples :

www.Google.co.in
www.MSN.co.in
www.Yahoo.co.in
www.Nokia.co.in
www.NationalGeographic.co.in
www.Epson.co.in
www.Orange.co.in
www.Zeiss.co.in
www.Alstom.co.in
www.BnpParibas.co.in
www.Colgate.co.in
www.Chevrolet.co.in
www.ThomasCook.co.in
www.Acer.co.in
www.Mercedes-Benz.co.in
www.Philips.co.in
www.Sony.co.in
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www.Netcore.co.in
www.Polaris.co.in
www.Sail.co.in
www.CentralBankOfIndia.co.in
www.SBI.co.in (State Bank of India)

This is why I have chosen to go with the .co.in .. Why do you think Google/Yahoo/Msn all of these huge companies and websites have decided with .co.in because it is mainly used by the Indian Online Market. So I am sticking with .co.in and with WOT said that he got over 10,000 hits.. thats amazing man.. Which names are getting that? Please Share!

I just went and regged a few more today.. cant help myself.

pratiknaik · 02-24-2005, 09:35 AM

I am sure it's whois.co.in

And the primary reason why all the major companies had selected .co.in is because .in was only for ISPs in India. bsnl.in has been there for a long time. I am sure things will change. Comapnies like rediff will definately try to attarct more people to use their email by offering @rediff.in domain - which sounds a lot cooler than @rediff.co.in And once some bigshot company like rediff gives .in some publicity - .in will overtake .co.in's popularity in no time. Let's wait for 6 months..

-Pratik

phptech · 02-24-2005, 09:46 AM

I wholeheartedly agree. This reminds me of the Canadian provincial subdomains we have here, name.on.ca is practically worthless, buyers want name.ca

Speculators of .co.in should take offers now IMHO because down the road they may have little value.

Premium · 02-24-2005, 10:05 AM

We all have different opinions, suppose you might be right, suppose you might be wrong. If your wrong then my $50 Invested will be worth something.

We'll see how it goes.

Regards,
Jarrod

taheny · 02-24-2005, 12:24 PM

The big companies did not decide to use co.in - there was no decision as co.in was the only Indian commercial extension. When only bananas are available, one cannot choose a mango. Co.in may have the best recognition now, but that will change soon, I bet.

I agree with phptech. Those with offers for co.in names should sell whilst they can.

Originally Posted by PremiumHostednet

This is why I have chosen to go with the .co.in .. Why do you think Google/Yahoo/Msn all of these huge companies and websites have decided with .co.in because it is mainly used by the Indian Online Market. So I am sticking with .co.in and with WOT said that he got over 10,000 hits.. thats amazing man.. Which names are getting that? Please Share!
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=71744

I just went and regged a few more today.. cant help myself.

02-23-2005, 06:01 PM	THREAD STARTER #1 (permalink)
Premium Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: NA Posts: 3,606	.IN or .CO.IN (Which did you get? Why?) Hey PeePz I saw everyone all excited over .in and the .co.in so I just grabbed a couple for a small investment. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/cctld-discussion/71744-in-co-did-you-get-why.html What did you get .in or .co.in ? Which is better? Why? Discuss people Here's my list: .. Man when will I stop!! bbb.co.in investor.co.in exercise.co.in bbs.co.in Think these are any good? (One Available.. reporter.co.in ..Sent NP$ if u grab it ) Regards, Jarrod __________________ Need Web Hosting? WebHostingReviews.ca User Reviews & Ratings \| Choose The BEST Host! Last edited by PremiumHostednet; 02-24-2005 at 08:38 AM.

02-23-2005, 06:02 PM	#2 (permalink)
IAmAllanShore NamePros Expert Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Esse quam videri Posts: 8,332	.in Shorter, easier to remember, and sounds better, IMHO. -Allan __________________ Something Witty This Way Comes...

02-23-2005, 06:20 PM	THREAD STARTER #3 (permalink)
Premium Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: NA Posts: 3,606	Good Point, however look at .co.uk .. doing real good!~ Could .co.in get that great? __________________ Need Web Hosting? WebHostingReviews.ca User Reviews & Ratings \| Choose The BEST Host!

02-23-2005, 06:22 PM	#4 (permalink)
IAmAllanShore NamePros Expert Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Esse quam videri Posts: 8,332	Part of why .co.uk is doing so well, IMHO (I just realized how often I say "IMHO"... I better cut back, IMHO ;-) ), is because .uk isn't available. If it was available... -Allan __________________ Something Witty This Way Comes...

02-23-2005, 06:26 PM	THREAD STARTER #5 (permalink)
Premium Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: NA Posts: 3,606	Another good point.. heh.. but both work IMO.. we'll have to wait and see how they both do I guess.. __________________ Need Web Hosting? WebHostingReviews.ca User Reviews & Ratings \| Choose The BEST Host!

02-23-2005, 06:26 PM	#6 (permalink)
Gregoire NamePros Regular Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 387	Yes Allan, .in is shorter ... this is why I regged some .in (20+) But .co.in is already known by indian websurfers as THE original Indian ccTLD, the one used by major companies for their Indian presence ... Thousands of developped .co.in websites, just a few examples : www.Google.co.in www.MSN.co.in www.Yahoo.co.in www.Nokia.co.in www.NationalGeographic.co.in www.Epson.co.in www.Orange.co.in www.Zeiss.co.in www.Alstom.co.in www.BnpParibas.co.in www.Colgate.co.in www.Chevrolet.co.in www.ThomasCook.co.in www.Acer.co.in www.Mercedes-Benz.co.in www.Philips.co.in www.Sony.co.in ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=71744 www.Netcore.co.in www.Polaris.co.in www.Sail.co.in www.CentralBankOfIndia.co.in www.SBI.co.in (State Bank of India) Try the .in of these companies... you'll be surprised and you will understand why my .co.in names do get some traffic and why my .in names do not get any ! Now, do what you want I you want a cool name, reg a .in, I love them. But if you want to target the Indian market ... do not forget that .co.in is already famous. The best idea is maybe to reg your name in both .in and .co.in and to redirect the .in to the well known .co.in Grégoire. Last edited by Gregoire; 02-23-2005 at 06:49 PM.

02-23-2005, 06:46 PM	#7 (permalink)
WuLabsWuTecH Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,478	i'd get .in if i wanted a .in since it'd be targeted towards Americans and Europeans and not Inidans. If you were going for indian population, then co.in is appropriate, otherwise, the shorter the better

02-23-2005, 06:56 PM	#8 (permalink)
lind NamePros Regular Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 388	I grabbed some .in, .co.in and (I guess I was the only one) some... .org.ins. And yes, as far as traffic is concerned, co.in works much better and I grabbed them all because of their gooood traffic. BTW my .org.in are getting quite nice traffic, too I think nobody really knows which ext works better and which is easier to resell. I personally think that the Indian registry should not have released .in at all - I guess there is a lot of confusion because of the two major ccTLD s in use. With time, I'm sure only .in survives since it's shorter. The same would happen if .uk were released.

02-23-2005, 07:58 PM	#9 (permalink)
Dillpup $7.49 .COM @ PranaDot.com Join Date: May 2004 Location: Honolulu Posts: 862	I think co.in,at least for now,is the best choice.Take this for example: Today I was looking for generic,brandable, dictionary word .IN's and co.in's and thought "________.in" was an awesome name.(I do not want to reveal the name) I scrolled down at DD24 and saw the .co.in was taken but the .IN was not.I registered the .in version. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=71744 I then checked the WHOIS on the .co.in and it turns out they (a major technology company in Australia,Japan,and India) just registered it yesterday,meaning they had the choice of .co.in and .IN and they chose ONLY .co.in.They very easily could have registered both.Says alot about Indian preferences. Not that I don't think .IN is good,it will probably catch on.I got a few of both..but like people have said,co.in is widely accepted already. __________________ Craft.TV Ninos.TV iPadBags.com iPad Bags and Accessories News Updated Daily

02-23-2005, 08:26 PM	#10 (permalink)
equity78 NamePros Expert Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 7,568	Great Post Dill because as an outsider with regards to India I am trying to figure this out. SO would the Indian members of NP say that .co.in is more favorable? Thank you

02-23-2005, 09:32 PM	THREAD STARTER #11 (permalink)
Premium Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: NA Posts: 3,606	Some fantastic thoughts and opinions shared into this thread. Thanks Everyone.. I would also like to know what the Indian people think about this as well and if they were to reg a domain which would it be. I'm glad I got the .co.in domains now __________________ Need Web Hosting? WebHostingReviews.ca User Reviews & Ratings \| Choose The BEST Host!

02-23-2005, 09:41 PM	#12 (permalink)
wot NamePros Expert Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Golden Triangle Posts: 5,776	I got 240 .co.in and 55 .in , my offers are coming for .co.in and the traffic is huge 10,000 hits yesterday. Please carry on regging the .in and let me get the real goodies. __________________ Perú.co,上海.biz,红旗.com,MonikerBlog.com 247.in,888Blog.com,México.co,中国888.com

02-23-2005, 09:45 PM	#13 (permalink)
LeeRyder Account Closed Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Left Coast Posts: 3,508	hmm..well I got Cum.co.in and Lee.co.in (dont laugh! Lee is taken in virtually everything by a company of one sort or another ) so hopefully these will payout at little

02-23-2005, 10:07 PM	#14 (permalink)
equity78 NamePros Expert Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 7,568	WOT 10,000 Hits WOW

02-23-2005, 10:20 PM	#15 (permalink)
MissFlora Epitome.Of.Pulchritude Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 3,136	I can't help but to register flora.co.in (yes, I finally have a flora .ext!), language.co.in & mp3music.co.in. I don't know what're their value now, but they sure look ok for me to develop. Hehehe. Flora. __________________ %%- 29th May NP Auction at 8pm EDT/5pm PDT/12am UTC %%- Drop-by when you are free: 1-after-1 NP$ .info Auction Toronto Summer 2011: Book NOW! \| For Sale: CrazyScript.com - comes with some traffic!

02-23-2005, 10:52 PM	#16 (permalink)
equity78 NamePros Expert Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 7,568	Nice names Flora IMO

02-23-2005, 10:55 PM	#17 (permalink)
MissFlora Epitome.Of.Pulchritude Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 3,136	Thanks equity And I personally choose .co.in over .in because of its reg fees too. Hehehe.. Flora. __________________ %%- 29th May NP Auction at 8pm EDT/5pm PDT/12am UTC %%- Drop-by when you are free: 1-after-1 NP$ .info Auction Toronto Summer 2011: Book NOW! \| For Sale: CrazyScript.com - comes with some traffic!

02-23-2005, 11:54 PM	#18 (permalink)
equity78 NamePros Expert Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 7,568	My India domain regs thong.co.in ipo.co.in Initial Public Offering mergers.co.in publish.co.in onlinepublishing.co.in biology.co.in

02-24-2005, 12:31 AM	#19 (permalink)
pratiknaik Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Lost somewhere in a stack of queues.. Posts: 1,200	.in looks very generic while .co.in looks very Indian. So you may have some chances of selling .in in $$, but .co.in are most likely to be sold in Indian Rupees. Mine are : hackers.in freaks.in null.in - dev.null.in is my blog flames.in ****ed.in netline.in alert.in gui.in -Pratik

02-24-2005, 12:39 AM	#20 (permalink)
taheny NamePros Regular Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 632	My take: Because of the previous difficulty registering co.in, most Indian companies used .com, .net or other top-level domain names. Relatively speaking, there weren't many co.in names registered. Now, with both the .in and co.in readily and easily available, companies will choose the .in. Will be interesting to see how it pans out in 2 or 3 years time.

02-24-2005, 09:35 AM	#22 (permalink)
pratiknaik Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Lost somewhere in a stack of queues.. Posts: 1,200	I am sure it's whois.co.in And the primary reason why all the major companies had selected .co.in is because .in was only for ISPs in India. bsnl.in has been there for a long time. I am sure things will change. Comapnies like rediff will definately try to attarct more people to use their email by offering @rediff.in domain - which sounds a lot cooler than @rediff.co.in And once some bigshot company like rediff gives .in some publicity - .in will overtake .co.in's popularity in no time. Let's wait for 6 months.. -Pratik

02-24-2005, 09:46 AM	#23 (permalink)
phptech NamePros Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Quebec, Canada Posts: 63	I wholeheartedly agree. This reminds me of the Canadian provincial subdomains we have here, name.on.ca is practically worthless, buyers want name.ca Speculators of .co.in should take offers now IMHO because down the road they may have little value.

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Premium Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: NA Posts: 3,606	We all have different opinions, suppose you might be right, suppose you might be wrong. If your wrong then my $50 Invested will be worth something. We'll see how it goes. Regards, Jarrod __________________ Need Web Hosting? WebHostingReviews.ca User Reviews & Ratings \| Choose The BEST Host!

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