If you don't think it's global, you're missing a bet. And which one did you get? hosting or domains?
Neither. The buy was unreported and should it be resold, it will be likewise unreported.
Outside.in uses .in as a preposition, did you get that point? Now try this with your domain - hosting.in/USA or hosting.in/Germany or even hosting.in/Cloud and you'll begin to see what I'm trying to show there. I agree that one domain does not an extension make, here are some more references:
.IN Developed .IN / .CO.IN Showcase - NamePros.com &
Site Rank You can choose to ignore what you see, or you can open your eyes an absorb everyone's experience and then evaluate it for your own requirements, your call.
Again, cute theory- no evidence that anyone cares, or is about to start caring to any meaningful degree.
As far as developed .in sites, a lot of the stuff in that thread is domainer minisite garbage, or clearly targeting the India market. Very little speaks to your point. Yes, someone may use it as a cute hack, but that's just as irrelevant to the .in namespace as the sale of famo.us is to the .us namespace. Anecdotes.
That's because you're thinking of the past, not of the future. Kids going online after 2013 will be familiar with .word extensions, unlike our generation, which has been .com trained.
No, I'm not thinking of the past. We both agree that there is a great deal of 'change' to be had, but there's no evidence that any of it will follow the trajectory you're suggesting. That's the central point.
I'll give a very contemporary example of how 'domainer theory' can be irrelevant in the real world...
There are any number of extensions that align with US state abbreviations. .ca, .mn, .md, .la, etc, etc, etc... and no one really cared (there are some anecdotes, but no evidence).
When .co came about and marketed itself heavily to domainers, suddenly, it being used for "COLORADO!" became a standard refrain. So, what was different this time? Why was .co going to catch for Colorado when every other extension that represented the exact same thing hadn't yet mattered to anyone? The answer is, nothing changed. A typical case of dumb domainers making dumb 'theories' to justify their lighting money on fire.
Most people can be categorized into one of two groups.
Left Brainers; the analysts. They are all facts, all data and from that information, their decisions are made. Their strength is that they are tremendous at quantifying and making very lucid decisions based on the here and now, but their weakness is that they're usually awful at seeing what's up ahead. They're also not very creative.
Then, there are the right brainers.
These are the creative ones. The more intelligent right brainers can be very talented at drawing abstract conclusions, which is the skill-set required to make guesses into 'the future'. Their strength is just that- they tend to see outcomes (typical or a-typical) that the left-brainers aren't wired to process. Their weakness is that often times, their imaginations get out of control and they start to invest their beliefs in theories, without bothering to consider plausibility.
That's what we have here.
I've always said the left side of the dot is more important than the right, believe it or not. [
The Extension Agnostic | mwzd.com ] And if you're going to get a crappy keyword, even having the .com at the end won't help you.
It depends on what you're trying to do... If your objective is to splog or make minisites, then sure... I guess. If your objective is to resell, then no. If your objective is to build a meaningful enterprise then no, the extension is very important. Domainers posess no unique wisdom that the world of business- who considers ccTLDs and .com to be the irrevocable gold standard- does not posses. It's the vote of business that counts- not the vote of domainer-logic- and their vote is quite clear.
Yes, I'm saying it does. As also usage for subdirectory/subdomain hacking. GamesForGirls.com didn't go for $500k on because it looks pretty, there is a linguistic logic to it, as there is to all branding and .in just works a LOT better than .tw or .co.uk for international usage.
GamesForGirls.com went for $500K because Kara is a guy who understands significant development, the role domains play in marketing, the value of type-in traffic and actually turning a profit with an online enterprise. People like Bill operate free from the contamination of domainer psuedo-logic, which is a logic that loses considerably more money than it makes.
Actually, as of today the rest of the world has more money invested in .IN than Indians. Plus you can be sure the people spending $x,xxx or more on .in domains are mostly NOT based in India. Chew on that for a bit.
Yes. I've made a XXXX .in purchase and I'm not in India, I read something somewhere where German domainer ownership of the .in ccTLD is enormously disproportionate. This has nothing to do with Germans using .in domains in Germany (anecdotes aside). It has to do with Germans, like Americans, disproportionately active domain speculators.