question .in

Can Anyone advise, if we need to pay while transferring our own domain name from Godaddy to Namecheap

Hi @Rahul VR, Yes .In is one of the most promising yet very underrated extension. If you find a good dictionary name with excellent matching with .in please keep it for long term and end user will find your address without any advertisement.

It will be difficult to sale it at marketplaces (except few places like SEDO & DaaZ) as .in is not allowed to sell by the registrars so no GoDaddy and group which means you are not dealing almost 70% of the domain industry. So please keep 5-10 year timeframe and do not try to flip for 50-60% gain.

If you are leaving GoDaddy you don't need to pay to them however when you are transferring your domain to another registrar here NameCheap then you need to pay certain amount which will also be use for one year extension at NameCheap.

For example if your domain is valid for one year and you are transferring it from one registrar to another you don't need to pay any amount to your existing registrar but you have to pay certain transfer fee to your new registrar and they will add one more year so at new registrar your domain's validity will be 1+1 =2.

I hope this will clarify your concerns. all the best

Many Thanks for the detailed answer, @GreatBrand.in

In general, this newTLD won't sell for a good price unless it meets a good match

• Domain name transfer only requires payment to the platform to which it is transferred
  

Rahul VR said:

Hello Friends,

Please can you advise, if it will be the right decision to invest in the domains end with ".in"

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.IN is the country code TLD of the India.

• INdia is a country of 1.35+ billion people ( circa 17 to 18% world population)
• Most of the people in India are tech savvy and easily adopt the technology
• A lot of start-ups starting every week / month
• Internet infrastructure is reasonably matured and also a lot of investments are pouring into this space
• Highly innovative and hard working youngsters - majority of the population is young... the list goes on.. fundamentals are quite ready for high demand for domain names

.IN has around 2.3 million registrations , around 1.7 million names are registered from India and the rest is from around the world. .IN has registrants from 225 countries + territories together.

If you talk about India , .com is the main extension with around 5 million registrations , followed by .IN.

With the recent developments ( linked to COVID) in India and the vocal for local movements certainly helps .IN extension.

.Com certainly the number 1 choice if its available , the other hand not many ready to pay for the .com prices. Bigger organisations and HNIs certainly can afford .com .

We also predict a lot of demand from India is coming for .COM names and stay tuned to see the sales happening in this front in next 1 to 2 years time. India is one of the key markets for us.

According to DaaZ.com , we see a huge potential for .IN adoption in general, whether it translate to a secondary market only time can answer. We are optimistic for the extension and its future though.

At present , we believe it's worth focusing on strong keyword.in and LLL.in names to begin with.

Followed by strong keyword.co.in names too.

All the best.

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Please do not consider any of the above information as investment advise, we are just sharing what we believe is accurate and some of the stats shared are based on our past research work.