Mails.in Sells for $24K!!!!!!!

[Wot]

Where are you Radistar- keep your .in names :wink:

Sold at Sedo!

 

[Bender]

wow...

 

[MediaHound]

wooooo hoooooooo
nice sale!

 

[friday]

Has to be a mistake, surely it is mail.in.

Just in case I am of to register sheeps.in.

 

[Dimva]

Wow, thats great for .in market!
Dimva

 

[nickb]

wow thats a big old figure. i havent even ever been on a .in site before.

 

[ezimedia]

Hi

GEE that is a lot for a .in extension but then again it sounds very cool mail.in

A lot of possibilities...There

Thanks
Tom Dahne

 

[Theo]

:-D

 

[jdk]

Nice sale.

 

[carlton]

Yes, nice sale! Considering the population of India, .in should have quite a large audience particularly if .co.in migrates over time to .in.

 

[RegFee]

Has this sale been confirmed yet? If so, I know of a guy selling some nice .in names real cheap. I may just accept his offer...

 

[Theo]

Yes, nice sale! Considering the population of India, .in should have quite a large audience particularly if .co.in migrates over time to .in.

.co.in is by default obsolete the moment .in was introduced last Feb.

 

[Wot]

.co.in is by default obsolete the moment .in was introduced last Feb.

:cheeky:


Same buyer also bought Mails.us so obviously has something in mind for both-

www.Green.ch

 

[Yum]

Gee.nice sale.

 

[LazyD]

wow,nice sale.

 

[Rubber Duck]

.co.in is by default obsolete the moment .in was introduced last Feb.

Yes, that is evidenced by what has happened to .co.jp and com.cn.

The biggest question over India is to what extent users will want to access the internet in English. India is considered to be an English speaking country by many, but the number of Indian's that actually use English as a first language is quite small. Globally English is way down the list when you consider first language speakers, as opposed to just the number of people capable of getting by.

Best Regards
Dave Wrixon



Best Regards
Dave Wrixon

 

[mole]

but the number of Indian's that actually use English as a first language is quite small.

Wait till you go to China.. :dead:

 

[Rubber Duck]

Wait till you go to China.. :dead:

Clearly, as the Chinese internet is almost exclusively in Chinese Characters apart from interests based in Hong Kong and Taiwan, it is fair to assume that English Language domain names are going to be of little relevence in China.

Best Regards
Dave Wrixon

 

[mole]

it is fair to assume that English Language domain names are going to be of little relevence in China.

By progressive deduction, does this mean .CN names based on English words won't work?

 

[Rubber Duck]

By progressive deduction, does this mean .CN names based on English words won't work?

I think that is generally a fair deduction. Obviously there are words that have universal acceptance, but the assumption must be that Romanic keywords will be predominantly Mandarin Chinese written in PinYin. You certainly could not expect much type-in for say mortgage.cn.

I have effectively bet the company on the IDN as far as China goes. I did, however, register about 60 odd 3 letter Romanic acronyms, but due the high renewal cost and my growing convinction that IDN is what will dominate the Chinese internet, I selectively dropped two thirds of them. I note that most of them have since been reregistered, but there was nobody queuing up to pay me a premium.

The whole point with type-in is that it needs to be done by intuitively by the uninitiated. How many American actually type in using Chinese characters?

Well the answer is probably quite a few, but only because their first language is Chinese!


Best Regards
Dave Wrixon