Which Indian .ext is the most popular? Answers here!

[ekal]

Want to know which domain extension is the most popular in India?

I just did a series of Google searches and the results surprised me. We have a runaway winner. The format of the search was site:gen.in

Two big shocks here:

1) .in is 20 times more popular than .co.in! Thats so surprising I'm going to have to find another way to double-check those numbers
2) .net.in is being beaten by .gen.in

in: 30,500,000
co.in: 1,300,00
org.in: 882,000
gen.in: 51,000
net.in: 38,400
ind.in: 16,500
firm.in: 4,500

Remember - this is testing end-user usage, not the mindshare amoung Indian internet users.

Other interesting stats:
.com: 13,640,000,000
.org: 4,380,000,000
.co.uk: 1,990,000,000
.net: 1,290,000,000
.us: 195,000,000
.info: 162,000,000
.name: 2,940,000

Interesting here:
1) .net seems to be a loser here also.
2) .info and .us are still a LONG, LONG way back in terms of usage.

 

[godolphin]

.in is being taken by the international community, ex: the Germans 'both in English and German languages'. Hence, i feel your searches revealed those results. The other factors could be of .in being used as something ".in" or "internet"!

 

[ekal]

How much has .in been influenced by non-Indian registrants?
The search for "india site:.in" produces 11,900,000

Again very unscientific, but that means that around 2/3 of .in domains are not India-related.

 

[gingeman]

I think .in was always going to have more useage than .co.in=

1. Less keystrokes- people are lazy and shorter domains are easier to remember and type

2. .in has great potential for hack/subdirectory domains:

i.e. take almost any generic term

football.in/india
football.in/russia

etc etc.

Good work though, interesting stats.

 

[ashokuh]

My first choice .in followed by co.in

 

[Charley]

How many people do you think in INDIA is aware of .in ?

.... I say less than 95 % of the co.in domains......

 

[BuysDomains]

Was your search on google.com or google.co.in ?

Also I find it interesting that big companies like yahoo still use yahoo.co.in for email addresses.

 

[ekal]

On Google.com

Note the disclaimer: "this is testing end-user usage, not the mindshare amoung Indian internet users."

From my reading, .co.in seems to be more or else equal with .in when it comes to recognition among Indian users.

However, even if only 1/3 of .in sites are used in India that still gives .in a lead of 11,900,000 compared to 1,300,00. That leads me to think a .in takeover is coming soon.

I'm about to launch several worldwide sites soon using the .in extension - I can't afford great keywords in .com for these. It seems as if many other people have the same idea.

 

[DreamWeb]

i always knew .in will be much more popular than .co.in
General rule in domaining is: Shorter always wins

:imho:

 

[tipsfromthetop]

How many business's in India know about the .in hardly any is the answer from the Indian Times pole they ran in February.

The .co.in is the winner hands down for indian people.

I am sure Pratik will agree with this who runs an Indian ISP/ Domain service and other indian business's.

The stats on listed.co.in the indian domain marketplace has the .co.in searched more regular by 38% over the .in

This will change in time yahoo and google and many other top corporate image companies still use .co.in but i do see the .in becoming more and more popular because its a nice extension not just becuase it is indian but it can be used for broken word domains like plug.in , kev.in etc

 

[a2zofb2b]

Ekal,
Your search for .in included results from 3rd level domain
Try
site:.in -.net.in -.res.in -.ernet.in -.firm.in -.ind.in -.co.in -.org.in -.ac.in -.gen.in -.gov.in -.nic.in


.in = 5,660,000 results in google.
Now if you exclude -.ebay.in you get 4,980,000

Hope this helps.

Want to know which domain extension is the most popular in India?

I just did a series of Google searches and the results surprised me. We have a runaway winner. The format of the search was site:gen.in

Two big shocks here:

1) .in is 20 times more popular than .co.in! Thats so surprising I'm going to have to find another way to double-check those numbers
2) .net.in is being beaten by .gen.in

in: 30,500,000
co.in: 1,300,00
org.in: 882,000
gen.in: 51,000
net.in: 38,400
ind.in: 16,500
firm.in: 4,500

Remember - this is testing end-user usage, not the mindshare amoung Indian internet users.

Other interesting stats:
.com: 13,640,000,000
.org: 4,380,000,000
.co.uk: 1,990,000,000
.net: 1,290,000,000
.us: 195,000,000
.info: 162,000,000
.name: 2,940,000

Interesting here:
1) .net seems to be a loser here also.
2) .info and .us are still a LONG, LONG way back in terms of usage.

 

[wot]

Stats, stats and downright lies. :wave:

Stats will do anything you tell em :blink:

 

[ekal]

Which would lead to .org.in being much more popular that .in....Sounds unlikely...

The stats on listed.co.in the indian domain marketplace has the .co.in searched more regular by 38% over the .in

Intresting stats from Tipsfromthetop. Are we in a situation where those outside the country see things much differently from those inside?

 

[a2zofb2b]

site:.in -.net.in -.res.in -.ernet.in -.firm.in -.ind.in -.co.in -.org.in -.ac.in -.gen.in -.gov.in -.nic.in

This gives 5,660,000 results in google.
Now if you exclude -.ebay.in you get 4,980,000
Hope this helps.

Correction:
.in = 5,660,000 results in google.
Now if you exclude -.ebay.in you get 4,980,000

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&....ac.in+-.gen.in+-.gov.in+-.nic.in&btnG=Search

.ac.in is more popular as most of the schools & colleges use it.

 

[Optinom]

You got wrong calculations.

when you search "site: .in", it includes results from other 3-rd level extns like co.in, gov.in, ac.in etc.

So, the results you got for .in, is actually: .in + other 3rd level extensions of .in.

May be .in is still higher.. Possible. But may not be 20 times popular, atleast for now.

Want to know which domain extension is the most popular in India?

I just did a series of Google searches and the results surprised me. We have a runaway winner. The format of the search was site:gen.in

Two big shocks here:

1) .in is 20 times more popular than .co.in! Thats so surprising I'm going to have to find another way to double-check those numbers
2) .net.in is being beaten by .gen.in

in: 30,500,000
co.in: 1,300,00
org.in: 882,000
gen.in: 51,000
net.in: 38,400
ind.in: 16,500
firm.in: 4,500

Remember - this is testing end-user usage, not the mindshare amoung Indian internet users.

Other interesting stats:
.com: 13,640,000,000
.org: 4,380,000,000
.co.uk: 1,990,000,000
.net: 1,290,000,000
.us: 195,000,000
.info: 162,000,000
.name: 2,940,000

Interesting here:
1) .net seems to be a loser here also.
2) .info and .us are still a LONG, LONG way back in terms of usage.

 

[Binfus]

You got wrong calculations.

when you search "site: .in", it includes results from other 3-rd level extns like co.in, gov.in, ac.in etc.

So, the results you got for .in, is actually: .in + other 3rd level extensions of .in.

May be .in is still higher.. Possible. But may not be 20 times popular, atleast for now.

The answer is rather simple: Subtract the combined numbers for .co.in, .org.in, .net.in, .firm.in, etc from the total number for .in, the result should be very close to the actual number of indexed pages for the main extension, i.e. .in just by itself without any contribution from its third level sub-extensions.

 

[-db-]

Whenever I see returns such as these at Google, I wonder how well they truly represent the development & usage of an extension, versus just the number of names registered with a page indexed. In other words, if more domain speculators have grabbed .IN's over .Co.in's, and most are parked with an indexed page.... the results could be interpreted differently, yes?

 

[DreamWeb]

Anyway if You have choose between any .co.ext and .ext which would You choose?

I think .in-being most popular extension i only matter of time...

 

[Charley]

I think .in-being most popular extension i only matter of time...

Nah, cant AGREE on that ... It'll not happen, I am supporting co.in

 

[Name-Driver]

.co.in sounds more like proffesional.

.in is good too , but in a casual way..