Why .in and .co.in domains do NOT sell?

[rickkumar]

Just wondering what could be the reasons behind dismal sales of .in and .co.in domains?

Sales reports (dnjournal, sedo, afternic, etc) and auctions (T.R.A.F.F.I.C, roundtable, domainfest, etc) hardly has any .in or .co.in domains sold.

Is it because:

- .in/.co.in etc did not take of ?
- .com dominates Indian domain space?
- too many extensions in India such as .in, .co.in, .org.in, .firm.in, .net.in?
- anything else?

Will investments in Indian extensions becomes dead money or should we take a chance and invest some?

Thanks.

 

[thetruman]

India speak numbers 1.2 1.3 billion inhabitants (and growing)
English widely spoken (this opens a big door to tne net world)
IT is widely spreads (many of the best it minds are in India)
Many big companies (from USA ,EU, Japan) are present in India and many other are entering in this huge market.
.IN has already a strong presence in the country, presence that will surely growth (native people confirmed this at NP).

Just add all this and shake... personally what I can see is an opportunity...

 

[Web Master]

IT is widely spreads (many of the best it minds are in India)

:lol:

 

[thetruman]

IT programmers and engineer? big time

 

[clocker24]

the proble is that double choice...

.co.in kills .in

One of the 2 should disappear

.in is the obvious choice. It's shorter and easier to remember. No need for a longer extension when a shorter one will do. I'm quite sure that over time .in will kill off .co.in.

 

[Web Master]

IT programmers and engineer? big time

Do you know which country has the world's biggest number of IT programmers and engineers? -China!

Do you know which country has the world's biggest number of university graduates (bachelor's degree+) every year? -China!

Do you know which country has the world's biggest number of computer major graduates every year? -China!

Do you know which country has the world's biggest IT industrial manufacture? -China!

......

(I'm not comparing counties here, since many people say that different countries have different pros and cons. What I want to emphasize here is that ccTLD domain names' buying and selling should be, as a primary way, based on a country's economy as well as on its market performance, realistically.)

Peace.


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[thetruman]

lol I am not from India as you probably already know...
I will answer with
which is one of the last comunist countries in the World? China!
Peace

(by the way this thread was about India, not about differences and possibilities among India and China. And I was referring to India as an IT highly literate country)

please check for example look at he graph and read for ex : In addition, the visitors can experience Bangalore’s hi-tech climate. The city has the highest number of engineering colleges in the world, almost 50 percent of the world’s SEI CMM Level 5 companies, COPC/ISO recognized Customer Interaction Centers, and over 103 R&D Institutions. It is, in fact, home to GE’s biggest R&D Center outside the U.S.—the Jack Welch Technology Center, which hires over 200 PhDs/scientists every month! To top it all, Bangalore has just been ranked the fourth best “Global hub of technological innovation” by none other than the United Nations.

 

[DomainLobe]

See this news post:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20071212.IBASIA12/TPStory/Business

 

[kemjika11]

what value might my domain fetch???

== livepoker.co.in ==

well from the list of sales posted, you bought that for $300?

not bad.

 

[domaindevelopers]

well from the list of sales posted, you bought that for $300?

not bad.

No, I hand regd it.

 

[krypton81]

Indian Companies will NOT pay money to acquire domains. And there are popular .com domains in every aspect of India. So its hard for someone to buy a .in and beat the existing .com's

You can expect some MNC's to acquire the .IN's

 

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Indian Companies will NOT pay money to acquire domains. And there are popular .com domains in every aspect of India. So its hard for someone to buy a .in and beat the existing .com's

You can expect some MNC's to acquire the .IN's

- I think you have too much under-estimated Indian companies. ccTLD supports legal issues i.e. a local / domestic company can file and get the trademark / patent name to their favor, and in TLD case, nothing can be done much.. And yes, we can expect not some but lots of acquisitions from brokers / companies for .co.in & .ins.

 

[Rubber Duck]

Yeah, Karl Marx would have been very proud! :wave:

lol I am not from India as you probably already know...
I will answer with
which is one of the last comunist countries in the World? China!
Peace

(by the way this thread was about India, not about differences and possibilities among India and China. And I was referring to India as an IT highly literate country)

please check for example look at he graph and read for ex : In addition, the visitors can experience Bangalore’s hi-tech climate. The city has the highest number of engineering colleges in the world, almost 50 percent of the world’s SEI CMM Level 5 companies, COPC/ISO recognized Customer Interaction Centers, and over 103 R&D Institutions. It is, in fact, home to GE’s biggest R&D Center outside the U.S.—the Jack Welch Technology Center, which hires over 200 PhDs/scientists every month! To top it all, Bangalore has just been ranked the fourth best “Global hub of technological innovation” by none other than the United Nations.

A good majority of people using computers in India access internet from cybercafes.

There are a lot of infrastructure and other bottlenecks that prevent people from
becoming web savvy.

Paypal allowed funds to be withdrawn to indian credit cards and bank accounts only a
month ago.

Facilities that are taken for granted in the western world is still yet to be a reality in India.

Dot in is in the stage where dot com was in 1990. It will pick up and people would
be referring 2007...2010 as the good era of dot in domaining IMHO

Yes, but the point is if they were already all at our level, we would have been swamped. Your examples only serve to prove how fast things are now moving.

Here is some further evidence of how slow they are moving:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Story...1=1&PrimaryID=41&Headline=Railways+offers+Net

He said the cyber cafes would be extended to all railway stations in the country, based on the initial success.

Stating that Railtel had set a target of laying optic fibre cable for over 40,000 km in the country, Kumar said nearly 21,000 km of it had already been laid.

The railways would also experiment by providing broadband Internet access on moving train, the first such instance in the world, he said. The service would be launched on a train this year.

Kumar said Railtel had a total bandwidth of 622 Mbps (1890 channels) of which, the railways requirement would be 30 channels, and the rest would be commercially exploited.

He said the Railtel infrastructure would also be used around five km from a railway station in villages and towns, besides using it for e-governance, tele-education and telemedicine applications.

 

[easternaga]

2024 and i still can't sell one word .co.in
Should I let it go give it away

 

[enterscope]

2024 and i still can't sell one word .co.in
Should I let it go give it away

Which ones do you own?

 

[Achumi]

2024 and i still can't sell one word .co.in
Should I let it go give it away

Are your from Nagaland?