closed 3 Letter domains

[cjj]

I have the following LLL .co.in domain names and wanted to know the value of them now. I thought that LLL combinations are:
a) used by companies often
b) usable in any language.

Therefore I chose some good ones and want to either sell on or hold on to them. What do you think of the value?

cdr.co.in
cjj.co.in
dga.co.in
geo.co.in
him.co.in
hin.co.in
hom.co.in
mus.co.in
nfi.co.in
rpe.co.in
sah.co.in
sam.co.in
sjw.co.in
sif.co.in
sta.co.in
tim.co.in

 

[Theo]

the .co is the deciding factor in this case. Since the .in was introduced, the .co.in realm is becoming obsolete.

 

[cjj]

I would accept this point but I can't seem to see that this is true. If you look at:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-51,GGLD:en&q=+co.in you see that the major players on the internet seem to be trading under .co.in and not .in. This includes:
Google
Msn
State Bank of India
Hutch
Thomas Cook
Largest Steel producer in India
Polaris
National Thermal Power Corporation
(and this is just by half way down the second page on google)

Are you suggesting that these companies will change their domains to .in ?

 

[Gee]

unless these 3letters related to something in india ...here's come the value

i found in www.cdr-india.com to have many results in google but the site is not working with me

try to contact the owner he may like to buy cdr.co.in


good luck

 

[cjj]

Thanks for that! Very helpful indeed.

I tried to chose common three letter combinations and those that would work well with 'India'.

For example,
HIN - abbreviated form of Hindi

Others could be anything, depending on the business they are in.

 

[Theo]

The .co.in has been open to Indian companies and foreign companies with established marks for several years. The .in is less than 60 days old. Taking into account the explosive rate that the .in domains have been registered at, I would think that foreign companies, already established in the .co.in realm will begin to migrate their web sites to .in

It requires a little .in-telligence :-D

 

[cjj]

Can anyone name an established website that migrated to a new domain name without changing the company name?

Also, I find that large (google, msn etc) websites that use a particular extension tend to shape the way other companies operate - namely because people will be exposed to the extension orally and in written form most often and therefore become more used to it.

From OVT:
Google.co.in 8964
Google.in 397

MSN.co.in 2002
MSN.in 96

bsnl.co.in (largest telecom firm in India) 4972
bsnl.in 448

sbi.co.in (State Bank of India) 634
sbi.in 0

I also accept that this may be partly due to the youth of .in extension, but my point is that if the world were to bring in just a .c extension, this would not replace .com. People are already used to .co.in for company names.

 

[Theo]

.co.in is essentially, a subdomain. If that were the case, companies would go en masse to register ***.us.com subdomains.

 

[cjj]

I don't see your point. If what were the case?

 

[Theo]

If the trend were to shun shorter TLDs in favor of older & longer ones, that is.
In fact, the UK is the paradox in this example as it still uses third level domains.

In Greece, the domain market did not take off until the .com.gr, .net.gr and .org.gr were dropped for the top TLD .gr - obviously all those older domains were grandfathered.

That's my point: the .in is less than 60 days old; give it some time and companies won't bother for the .co.in - it would look antiquated.

 

[cjj]

Let's have a sportsman's bet on this then. I think .co.in will prevail like the UK and Japan. But who knows?!!

 

[ccourt23]

bazzee is now ebay.in not ebay.co.in

 

[cjj]

I noticed that aswell. Both has zero with extention in OVT.
Not alot of activity on i though so far

 

[a2zofb2b]

Msn (microsoft network) will be
MSN.co.in and not MSN.in
MSN (microsoft network) didn't apply for .in extension during sunrise and MSN.in is registered by iAdvanceMedia.
But microsoft did register hotmail.in & microsoft.in in the sunrise period.

MSN.co.in is the home page of lot of Indians.

It is too early to say which usage will prevail .co.in or .in .

Most .co.in sold for $1000 + till date are related to City/State name or very generic names or reserved in the .in extension.

Coming back to the appraisal,
I would say some of these domains would be worth $$$ .

 

[RTM.net]

Personally, I believe in the value of a premium .co.in domain , but since .in is available... it will become the defacto standard over time.

Remember altavista.digital.com vs. altavista.com ... there's a 7 figure argument.

Rob

 

[Wot]

the .co is the deciding factor in this case. Since the .in was introduced, the .co.in realm is becoming obsolete.

Yep, obsolete to the extent that all my traffic comes from .co.in bar a trickle of .in , of the 89 names I have sold one was .in the remaining 88 .co.in.

Total sales value now in high $xx,xxx

Includes state names, one word generics and at least ten two worders. No three letter names yet but I have some good ones.

IMO, India relevant 3 letter names should pitch at around low to mid $xxx

 

[a2zofb2b]

Yep, obsolete to the extent that all my traffic comes from .co.in bar a trickle of .in , of the 89 names I have sold one was .in the remaining 88 .co.in.

Total sales value now in high $xx,xxx

Includes state names, one word generics and at least ten two worders. No three letter names yet but I have some good ones.

IMO, India relevant 3 letter names should pitch at around low to mid $xxx

Wot,
Who is buying these domains,
Is it reseller buying it for higher returns in couple of years or end users planning to develop .

 

[Theo]

Obviously those used to the .co.in slavery will continue to type the extra .co until they realize the .in is shorter and easier to the eye. Also, when will Indians realize that .co in fact stands for Colony? :-D They need to break away from momma Albion, whose example they followed.

 

[Wot]

Wot,
Who is buying these domains,
Is it reseller buying it for higher returns in couple of years or end users planning to develop .

One end user, the rest resellers / developers.

Bodes well for a potentially large "end user " sale in the not too distant future.

 

[seeker]

In Greece, the domain market did not take off until the .com.gr, .net.gr and .org.gr were dropped for the top TLD .gr - obviously all those older domains were grandfathered.

Theo, are you sure?
I am under the impression that .gr was there before com.gr, net.gr etc...

I personally prefer .in over co.in, however, in India, .co.in is used more than .in

I generally do not see much value in .in (or co.in) unless one wants to wait for at least 5-8 years, in which you will be paying renewal fees.
Of course, for super one word, locally targetted words (which are few), its another story