Thread: The proof that .IN is a global TLD

.IN can rank great for languages and countries other than English and India. Here's an excellent example.

From my location I see the following results:

- if you search for juegos de mario (Spanish for "Mario games") on Google, JuegosGratis.in is on 5th position out of 73,000,000+ results.

- if you search for juegos gratis (Spanish for "free games") on Google, JuegosGratis.in is on 15th position out of 52,000,000+ results.

Compete.com shows that JuegosGratis.in receives an average of 12,000+ UVs per month.

For the sake of completeness, here are a few sales related to the keywords:

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       Domain          |  Price  |  Date  | Venue
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JuegosTonic.com        | $95,000 | Mar 11 | Sedo
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JuegosFlash.com        | $31,548 | Dec 08 | Sedo
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JuegosFun.com          | $17,146 | Jun 09 | Sedo
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MicroJuegos.com        | $15,065 | Apr 08 | Sedo
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JuegosDeVestir.org     | $13,500 | Feb 11 | Sedo
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MicroJuegos.com        | $12,595 | Dec 10 | Sedo
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MaxiJuegos.com         | $11,887 | Mar 11 | Sedo
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JuegosDeMario.com      | $11,000 | Mar 11 | Moniker/SnapNames
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JuegosGratis.net       | $10,896 | Aug 08 | Sedo
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Juegos.com.uy          | $10,000 | May 08 | Sedo
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JuegosDeMarioBros.com  | $9,500 | Nov 09 | Sedo
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JuegosJuegos.es        | $6,416 | Oct 07 | Sedo
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Juegos.bo              | $6,200 | Jan 11 | Sedo

Glad to see that! Not long ago someone on the forum was complaining about the difficulty ranking .in domains outside of India, so this is welcome news indeed.

That may be so but we all know that the ONLY real TLD is the .com

Local TLDs, .in, .uk, or even .tv are useful but they are by definition NOT Global.

To be frank as far as a global user of the web is concerned, you may as well get .ludhiana!

I know that may not feel right for us but it is the truth.

CJ

Originally Posted by Chandrajeet

To be frank as far as a global user of the web is concerned, you may as well get .ludhiana!

I disagree. Google gives different weight to different TLDs (talking about ccTLDs here) and I think that .IN, being a highly brandable TLD and a sleeping giant, is among the better ones in Google's eyes.

This ranking is NOT proof; There is only one global TLD and that is .COM.

The domain JuegosGratis.in ranks well on the Spanish term search you checked because well, the domain name is in Spanish. At my location, the domain you mention doesn't show on 1st page.

You can really compare the effect of different TLDs by putting same content on a .COM and any other TLD.

Nay sayers will always doubt .in, but it will be a succesful TLD in the long run, irrespective of what .com offers. Mind you that .IN is managed responsibly by Indian govt and this adds to the long term success chances of a TLD..IN is not .COM, but this should not be used to be pessimistic about .IN overall. many .ins are getting trafic! i get typo traffic from universities for 1 or 2 of my lll.ins, others get natural type in, and my overall traffic volume has gone up, no doubt,so they are just different games but both lucrative in their own ways..COM is more higher amount, .IN will be higher ROI.

Originally Posted by itssri

This ranking is NOT proof; There is only one global TLD and that is .COM.

The domain JuegosGratis.in ranks well on the Spanish term search you checked because well, the domain name is in Spanish. At my location, the domain you mention doesn't show on 1st page.

You can really compare the effect of different TLDs by putting same content on a .COM and any other TLD.

No doubt .COM, .NET and .ORG are gTLD, but the ranking is the proof that Google treats .IN as a gTLD. JuegosGratis.in ranks well because not only is the term Spanish (it's obvious, even JuegosGratis.com doesn't appear on Google if you search for "games"), but because .IN can rank well internationally.

On a side note, if I search for "games" on Google.com, I can see Game.co.in on 6th position out of a whopping 3.3 billion results! Here's a screenshot of my search.

I've been buying .info lately i find they rank easier than .in's. Sure anything can rank well with enough energy.
.ca is that same situation: can not change the geotarget.
Now if we could get google to change this then things would be different.

Originally Posted by chaudi

I've been buying .info lately i find they rank easier than .in's. Sure anything can rank well with enough energy.
.ca is that same situation: can not change the geotarget.
Now if we could get google to change this then things would be different.

With .info you can change the geotargeting country, so it obviously ranks easier than .INs. I'm saying that for an extension for which you can't change the country, .IN ranks very well.

Ever noticed the only people who don't think .IN is global either don't have any or have such crap ones that the only way those keywords would rank would be if it were .com?

And if you can't change the geo-target of .in, could someone explain to me how outside.in exclusively services the US market?

I love fairy tales... heard the one where .co.in will beat .in? No? Must have just entered this market.