Thread: WILL this DESTROY any potential gains from .In domains??

Originally Posted by Truekumar

Thanks Euroflash.....So what do you guys reckon now? This is starting to sound very worrying for .In investors!

I don't think an extension such as .mumbai will be a threat to .in at all. Yes, it will be an alternative to some companies and organizations specific to this city. But .in is the national extension and will be the preferred (more so than .com I predict) extension in the future.

.mobi was also supposed to dominate sites suitable for mobile phones, but look at that extension now...

Originally Posted by Truekumar

Thanks Euroflash.....So what do you guys reckon now? This is starting to sound very worrying for .In investors!

Apart from its natural use as India's national TLD, .IN is one of the most important actors in the future scenery of extensions, because, unlike other "vanity" TLDs, it can be easily branded as "INternet", "INformation", "INternational", ecc. So, if startups are already using these alternative TLDs with no real branding potential as described here, just imagine how big .IN's potential is.

Thanks for the response guys! Good answers!

Originally Posted by Truekumar

Thanks Euroflash.....So what do you guys reckon now? This is starting to sound very worrying for .In investors!

If you ask me, .mumbai is not worrying me at all. Who would need a domain with such extension? Only some local companies. Even if I ran a small business in Mumbai, I would still prefer .in to .mumbai for my domain name by 100 times. This is very niche extension. Look at .asia. It has gigantic scope compared to .mumbai and it is too weak to be calculated by Google Trends even.

Not to mention that it's long! Who the heck may want to type such a long extension? Look at .travel. It had to be a game changer in its industry, nowadays you have some superpremium keywords, taken even in some obscure ccTLDs (which are only 2 letters long) that are available in .travel

I still think this is looking quite worrying for .In and other top level domain extension investors:


BBC News - Icann increases web domain suffixes

Originally Posted by Truekumar

I still think this is looking quite worrying for .In and other top level domain extension investors:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13835997

From the article I read:

"It will cost $185,000 (£114,000) to apply for the suffixes, and companies would need to show they have a legitimate claim to the name they are buying."

I think it will have absolutely no impact on domaining for 3 reasons:

- "companies would need to show they have a legitimate claim to the name they are buying": first (not easy!) step to obtain this new type of domain name.

- "$185,000": if your goal is to sell domains in the XXX XXX range, yes, it can have a little impact...

- I take an example: if the name of your company is Practo, and if you achieve to create the .pratco extension. Would you let practo.com, pratco.net or pratco.TLD available? Certainly not.

So, don't worry