Guessing that they didn't "lose" so much as it's no longer on their radar, aka future planning. Sign that anyone with old blogs still on a blogspot domain might want to download their posts for posterity (or to move elsewhere). I'm a tad bit surprised anyone is still there kinda like when your parents friends give you their AOL email address.
Isn't .in dropcatching/auctioning by registrars disallowed by NIXI? Looking into Domainming it seems they've done this before as well, surely there'll be action taken