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Please appraise the following .IN names for the retail, end-user market:

ComputerGame.in
ComputerGames.in
InternetExplorer.in
InternetGambling.in
InternetPoker.in
PokerGame.in
PokerGames.in

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I'm like you, jumping in to buy at least a few of these. These are okay, but mostly not quite type-ins - even as .coms. The word "computer" and "internet" are not really needed, and people are less likely to type them. They are more likely to type "gambling" than "internet gambling."

ComputerGames.in is probably the strongest, possibly going for at least low $xxx in a year or two.
 

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regg fee for all!

Also, please do not link you domains to any advertising pages!

No advertising allowed in this section.

Thanks
 

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healingsites said:
I'm like you, jumping in to buy at least a few of these. These are okay, but mostly not quite type-ins - even as .coms. The word "computer" and "internet" are not really needed, and people are less likely to type them. They are more likely to type "gambling" than "internet gambling."

ComputerGames.in is probably the strongest, possibly going for at least low $xxx in a year or two.

OK. Thanks much for your comments. More are welcome.

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RubIt.in Don :-D (still available)
 

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RADiSTAR said:
RubIt.in Don :-D (still available)

As is Hurry.in. :cheeky: But I'm done with .IN names for now. I'm still waiting to hear back from Directi about 10 very strong keyword domain names I tried to pre-register. Today I got notice that I was able to nab one, but it was the weakest of the lot. The people @ Directi don't move @ the speed of business; they act more like a government bureaucracy.

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Hang on to them for a year, and the 2 word ones will sell them for good money. The extention needs time to establish itself on the internet - We have registered 1000 generic .in (most 50 million + google) so believe this extension will go big - domains such as bisexual.in transvestite.in entrepreneur.in were available until today. You talked about gaming domains - If anyou have a gaming site and are quick, you can still get warriors.in - one that we rejected earlier and is still available at the time of writing. Good luck to anyone investing in this extension. I believe our vision will pay off
 

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UKPro said:
Hang on to them for a year, and the 2 word ones will sell them for good money. The extention needs time to establish itself on the internet - We have registered 1000 generic .in (most 50 million + google) so believe this extension will go big - domains such as bisexual.in transvestite.in entrepreneur.in were available until today. You talked about gaming domains - If anyou have a gaming site and are quick, you can still get warriors.in - one that we rejected earlier and is still available at the time of writing. Good luck to anyone investing in this extension. I believe our vision will pay off



your on the wrong track. anyone buying .in will regret it later. .co.in is the way to go. take the .in as a defensive back up of your .co.in

.co.in is used by google.co.in, msn.co.in, yahoo.co.in - every bank, every major company in india. use ,co.in . it is ingrained , much the same way as .co.uk is to british people.

no one uses .in

.co.in is established, reputable, has existing type in traffic. .in has none of this

it will be the same as .cn , .sg, .nu . they are worthless. .com.cn gets considerable traffic. .cn gets nothing bar domain speculators.

because domainers/speculators now own most of the generic .in domains , the extension is doomed. they dont do anything but hoard and wait for sales, some have token development pages with few hits a day.

on the other hand, with major companies promoting and actively using .co.in , it has a good future
 

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chungju4 said:
your on the wrong track. anyone buying .in will regret it later. .co.in is the way to go.

Time will tell. Globally, things are starting to go the way of simplification. my .JP domains are gaining more and more traffic each month. .UK will soon trump .co.uk. .CN simply need time to settle in.

Yep: domain speculation is risky and I am fully aware of that. I have no problem holding onto my names for years if that's what it takes for them to mature.

Your comments are appreciated and more are welcome. Thanks.

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um, I hate to break the news to you but .co.in is used by most companies because that is all there was...until now. Keep in mind most english speaking indians probably use .com or .org for type-in's.

Your comment about only buying ".co.in" at this point has no merit. If there was a market for .co.in names a lot of the generic's would have been reg'd by now--by indians themselves who were the only ones who could reg them. This should speak volumes to everyone investing in ".in" right now.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own any .in names, and have no vested interest either way. Just pointing out the obvious.

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your on the wrong track. anyone buying .in will regret it later. .co.in is the way to go. take the .in as a defensive back up of your .co.in

.co.in is used by google.co.in, msn.co.in, yahoo.co.in - every bank, every major company in india. use ,co.in . it is ingrained , much the same way as .co.uk is to british people.

no one uses .in

.co.in is established, reputable, has existing type in traffic. .in has none of this

it will be the same as .cn , .sg, .nu . they are worthless. .com.cn gets considerable traffic. .cn gets nothing bar domain speculators.

because domainers/speculators now own most of the generic .in domains , the extension is doomed. they dont do anything but hoard and wait for sales, some have token development pages with few hits a day.

on the other hand, with major companies promoting and actively using .co.in , it has a good future
 

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chungju4 said:
your on the wrong track. anyone buying .in will regret it later. .co.in is the way to go. take the .in as a defensive back up of your .co.in

.co.in is used by google.co.in, msn.co.in, yahoo.co.in - every bank, every major company in india. use ,co.in . it is ingrained , much the same way as .co.uk is to british people.

no one uses .in

.co.in is established, reputable, has existing type in traffic. .in has none of this

it will be the same as .cn , .sg, .nu . they are worthless. .com.cn gets considerable traffic. .cn gets nothing bar domain speculators.

because domainers/speculators now own most of the generic .in domains , the extension is doomed. they dont do anything but hoard and wait for sales, some have token development pages with few hits a day.

on the other hand, with major companies promoting and actively using .co.in , it has a good future

Mr Chungju

Well what a shame, I guess I have wasted $20,000. I wish I had spoken with you first.

It is impossible make statements of this type unless you are a fortune teller. Nobody uses .in because they only launched the extension yesterday. All of the compnies who are using .co.in will need to use .in too but the reverse does not necessarily apply. .co.in will always be seen as secondary because it is longer. I am not saying that it does not have some potential, but the international market which I am interested in will not be buying as many .co.in domains as .in
I was not interested in .cn , .sg, .nu - but .in is a different story. I personally like the look of the extension because in is the first 2 letters of international, internet and so many other words. This has nothing to do with India for me. I do own over 30,000 .com and .net domains and we do sell approximately 50 a week. Our turnover is 7 figures a year. Nobody is qualified to make statements of the kind you have made. Nobody can be sure of the future, not even you though I believe that I am perhaps a little better qualified to make statements of the kind you have made because I have a successful track record and my investments have a habit of paying off. I choose not to make statements, but am always ready to offer an opinion. You notice I don't state that the extension WILL do well. I state that I BELIEVE the extension will do well but time will tell. You are of course most welcome to your opinion, but your statement that the extension WILL NOT do well to the people who have invested is simply not a professional way to share your opinion.
 

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well, you guys can think as you wish, but you just need to look at the facts and comparisons about other extensions.

btw, to amcry , .uk won't take over .co.uk . it was discussed and rejected by nominet. there won't be a .uk

.in was possible to reg previous to feb 16th because i have seen .in whois dates of 2003.

every country is not the same, but the actions of others does give a good forecast as to the use of .in

have you seen any chinese companies switching from .com.cn to .cn ? NO
have you seen any singapore companies switching .com.sg to .sg ? NO
REAL EXAMPLE - yahoo.com.cn - did they start using .cn ? do they even redirect the .cn to the .com.cn ??? NO . It is likely they will follow the same policy in India.


The reason companies have bought some .in , is simply defensive registrations. they are protecting their name in the .co.in because if they dont some squater will reg it and try and sell it back to them or put on a ppc page. Because they own the .in , it does not mean they will stop using .co.in and start using .in .

In summary then, most of the established companies in India already use .co.in. they wont just change to .in

new small companies may start using .in but it will probably be foreign speculators and some indian citizens that use it. these sites will never be high traffic .


ps - to izpod - about no one buying the generic .co.in until now. the reason being india only has a 1.7% of population internet usage at 2005. before that it was even lower. the reason no one bought them is they had little value /use , it was beurocratic process to get one, and you are making the mistake of attaching great value to english keywords in an islamic /hindi country. its the same as people thinking wow i have englishkeyword.de .

one last reality check - indian traffic is worthless, the same as chinese / african . you may get lucky and find a ppc company that will pay 0.03 per click. alot of them won't accept it.

having said that i bought 30 indian domains last night. but my motives are completely different from what you guys are doing.
 

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chungju4 said:
REAL EXAMPLE - yahoo.com.cn - did they start using .cn ? do they even redirect the .cn to the .com.cn ??? NO . It is likely they will follow the same policy in India.

Yup. And if I owned a big, multi-national corporation I would register the .CO.IN name too. But I don't. And I am not a cybersquatter either so I'm not going to register trademarked names. I am registering strong keyword and keyphrase names which I feel is more appropriate to do in the .IN name space. As others with these names start developing sites, it will catch on.

As I said before: it's all speculation and we know the risks. Good luck with your names and good luck to me with mine :)

More comments are welcome. Thanks.

AmCy
 

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izopod said:
um, I hate to break the news to you but .co.in is used by most companies because that is all there was...until now. Keep in mind most english speaking indians probably use .com or .org for type-in's.

Your comment about only buying ".co.in" at this point has no merit. If there was a market for .co.in names a lot of the generic's would have been reg'd by now--by indians themselves who were the only ones who could reg them. This should speak volumes to everyone investing in ".in" right now.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own any .in names, and have no vested interest either way. Just pointing out the obvious.

izopod,
Untill now (Feb 16th) only companies were allowed to register company name .co.in .
They were not allowed to register generic names.

But now anyone can register generic. Most resident Indians are familiar with .co.in than .IN .

If one is targeting Indian traffic then .co.in would be better (example ebay Inc has registered ebay.co.in but not ebay.in) , but for reseller .IN would be better especially if it could be branded as .INternet . (Similar to .WS value ).
 

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AmCy said:
Please appraise the following .IN names for the retail, end-user market:

ComputerGame.in
ComputerGames.in
InternetExplorer.in
InternetGambling.in
InternetPoker.in
PokerGame.in
PokerGames.in

Thanks in advance.

AmCy

Getting back to appraisal,

ComputerGame.in
ComputerGames.in
I would say will have good valuation.

I do not see much value for
InternetExplorer.in
InternetGambling.in

Especially , if .in gets branded as .INternet

Personally, I would stay away from anything to do with Gambling , Sex etc
InternetPoker.in
PokerGame.in
PokerGames.in

Reason, depending on the content the Government can potentially take action.
(similar to what they did to CEO of Bazee.com , eBay company).
 

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a2zofb2b said:
Getting back to appraisal,

ComputerGame.in
ComputerGames.in
I would say will have good valuation.

I do not see much value for
InternetExplorer.in
InternetGambling.in

Especially , if .in gets branded as .INternet

Personally, I would stay away from anything to do with Gambling , Sex etc
InternetPoker.in
PokerGame.in
PokerGames.in

Reason, depending on the content the Government can potentially take action.
(similar to what they did to CEO of Bazee.com , eBay company).

Thanks much for your comments. Appreciated. More are welcome.

AmCy
 

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Chungju - I keep trying to explain, you cannot compare .in to .cn. They are 2 different letters altogether and am not targeting India. I'm targeting the INternet. OK You don't like it fine, but also understand that there are no facts on something which has not happened yet and you must also understand that Foreign companies that are operating in India will need to buy these - it is lso a nice looking alternative extension for others. Again, I'm not making statements, I am telling you what I believe. .uk may well take over .co.uk in time if it is ever released, but you state it will not. Fine. How can you make a statement based on theory ? I would advise you to use the words "I believe" in future otherwise you may put people off taking a chance on something which may well work out better than many expect thus costing the people which you have advised, money. Anyway, this game is all about instinct which is why I turnover in excess of $1m a year after only 40 months in this business. Sometimes you have to take a risk, I believe this particular investment will pay off many times over, but time will tell. Nobody knows yet - not even you unless of course you have some special powers that I don't know about AND GOOD LUCK TO AMCY AND EVERYONE ELSE TAKING A CHANCE
 

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again......let's keep the discussion on the domains in question!

a debate on who is more qualified to make statements, relating to the current or potential value of the extension, is totally irrelevant.

thanks
 

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again......let's keep the discussion on the domains in question!

a debate on who is more qualified to make statements, relating to the current or potential value of the extension, is totally irrelevant.

thanks[/QUOTE

Agreed, but is not "irrelevant" a very large grey animal from India , that brings us back on track! :clown:
 
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