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

[Premium]

Hey PeePz

I saw everyone all excited over .in and the .co.in so I just grabbed a couple for a small investment.

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

Discuss people

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

bbb.co.in
investor.co.in
exercise.co.in
b:cy::cy:bs.co.in

Think these are any good?

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

Regards,
Jarrod

 

[IAmAllanShore]

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

 

[Premium]

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

 

[IAmAllanShore]

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]

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

 

[Gregoire]

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
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]

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]

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]

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.
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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

WOT 10,000 Hits WOW

 

[MissFlora]

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]

Nice names Flora IMO

 

[MissFlora]

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

Flora.

 

[equity78]

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]

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

-Pratik

 

[Joe123]

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.