Thread: .co.in question

Folks,

say abc.in is taken. then do relevent abc.co.in have no value
any example for the abc.in and abc.co.in has been in use by two different parties?

coz i have a few LLL.co.in's. so now i am afride that if relevant LLL.in's are implemented as websites by someone, then my ones will have no value

They will have value if and only if they are developed. If you just kept those lll.co.in parked or unused then there are greater chance of loosing them. To avoid such situation you should put something on those domains specially since .in's are developed.

Same domain name with extension .in and .co.in are treated as separate domains. They are like .com and .net having same domain names.

To avoid the confusion it is better to have both extensions. If you are not developing then you can try to sale those to .in owner.

.In and .co.in can be used by different parties if the term is generic.

.Co.in are normally worth less than .in, but still have their own value, independent of .in.

Note that random LLL.co.in's likely aren't worth much, if anything, above reg fee at this time.

Originally Posted by Jeff

.In and .co.in can be used by different parties if the term is generic.

.Co.in are normally worth less than .in, but still have their own value, independent of .in.

Note that random LLL.co.in's likely aren't worth much, if anything, above reg fee at this time.

Thanks jeff for the comment !

Originally Posted by kedaar

They will have value if and only if they are developed. If you just kept those lll.co.in parked or unused then there are greater chance of loosing them. To avoid such situation you should put something on those domains specially since .in's are developed.

Same domain name with extension .in and .co.in are treated as separate domains. They are like .com and .net having same domain names.

To avoid the confusion it is better to have both extensions. If you are not developing then you can try to sale those to .in owner.

Cool thoughts, thanks

Originally Posted by kedaar

They will have value if and only if they are developed. If you just kept those lll.co.in parked or unused then there are greater chance of loosing them. To avoid such situation you should put something on those domains specially since .in's are developed.

Is there something about India names that I'm missing?
Why does parking a .in name increase the chance of one losing it?

The reason I ask is that I own a number of fairly decent Indian geos and I could absolutely see someone at the .in registry saying "Hey! What entitles this damn American to own the names of great Indian cities!!!" and finding whatever technicality they could to jerk them...

So, if there's something I have to do in the way of development or if parking isn't OK with India names, please advise.

now i also have some doubt
kedaar, what do you mean by

there are greater chance of loosing them

if kept parked, do our domains get cancelled by registar you mean?

It's not an automatic process, but there are great chances this could happen, as domain parking is seen as 'bad faith' by the Registry.

Originally Posted by kandyjet

if kept parked, do our domains get cancelled by registar you mean?

I think it's become risky to park any valuable domain regardless of the domain extension (ie not just Indian domains).

If you read through recent domain dispute decisions, you'll see that it's becoming more and more risky to park. Here are just a couple of examples: here and here.

Originally Posted by Ceres

I think it's become risky to park any valuable domain regardless of the domain extension (ie not just Indian domains).

If you read through recent domain dispute decisions, you'll see that it's becoming more and more risky to park. Here are just a couple of examples: here and here.

cool, btw, i think this is where mini sites comes in to play right
most of the domainers are not good php mysql developers.
so minisites will help them some what safe guard the domains.