I know it's been widely discussed previously, but I'd like to hear some of the member's input on which extension will do better in:

• Usage (local and international[i.e. USA domain investors or USA companies])
• Short-term Value
• Long-term Value

I would especially be interested in hearing from those that live in or have lived in India.

Do you like .in or .co.in better?

Long term value is definitely .in. The Indian Registry has given strong signs that it will support .in over .co.in in the future

Development and usage, probably .co.in for now

this debate is going every where in np ,dnf etc

i think .co.in goes with populatrity buy forigeners prefer .in

You sir are spot on I am also the owner of listed.co.in ( Indian domain marketplace ) all the traffic goes to .co.in domains on our site and the majority of this is coming from India where the .in traffic comes from the states and the UK.

The last Domain conference i was at also questioned the life expectancy of the .co.in now the .in was released and it was actually turned around by the Indian NIC delegate with him saying the .co.in was safe and was never in danger, because the attitude towards the .in is a gimmick extension loved by people in the west.

That as you can imagine caused the conference hall of over 200 people to laugh.

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about half sounds right ;D - considering that most people are split on this issue.

I see .in growing as a world-brand extension, where co.in may be used by domestic India companies.

Absolutely - the U.S. has .com, .us, .org. and .net in regular usage.

Theres no reason why India can't have .com, .in and .co.in, each with slightly different uses and audiences.

Steve thats the way i see it finnally settling. Nothing wrong with that option at all.

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You know, if you think about it, India is a lot of the US in terms of a "defining" extension.

One of the reasons that .us has taken a while to get a foothold is because everyone in the US views .com as THE extension (due to the fact that the US set up Internet initially, this is what we're used to). So when .us came a long, it wasn't viewed as the nessacary "United States" extension - more so, just another extension.

On the other hand, every other country in the world with maybe the exception of the UK, has thier own "Defined" extension, Japan has .jp, Canada has .ca, etc. And there is no second guessing what the country's extension is, it's definitive.

India is one of the outliers, where there isn't a definition of which extension is THE extension in India. A bit like .com was first in the US consumer's eyes, .co.in was first in Indian consumer's eyes. Will those consmers and companies make the switch to .in, most likely IMHO, but just like .us has taken time to arrive and be recognized domestically, so will India's switch from .co.in. to .in.

A little info for your thoughts. I have two LLL domains which I believe target the same population in India. Both domains are parked at the same company & here are the stats for the past 7 days:

rrb_ _in = 50 visits, $1.57
rrb.co__in = 73 visits, $1.32

Both do reasonably well for parked LLL with an Indian extension.
What do these numbers mean??? Who knows! Statistically they will likely perform similarly over a long period of time.


RRB is 'rural railroad board' among other meanings

An interesting way to look at it. Some of my pairs:

psg.co.in US$ 2.59 187 hits
psg.in US$ 1.29 115 hits

glc.co.in US$ 0.95 131 hits
glc.in US$ 0.22 102 hits