@LLL.in King, no I have not sold my entire portfolio but instead I am downsizing it a little and still concentrating solely on .IN development. I have completely changed my strategy now and I do not believe there is a future in just buying names, sitting on them for a few years and hoping to then sell them on for massive profits. I do not believe that including renewal costs into the equation, that we can actually make decent profits on this sort of game anymore, BUT I do believe that there is MASSIVE opportunities in DEVELOPMENT of our names!
If I do occasionally see a really good .IN, I will still buy it but ONLY if I have some sort of plan to develop it at some point in the next year or two. I will not buy it solely for investment purposes, because that game has already slowed down for .COMs and it will NEVER start for .INs. It is now ALL ABOUT development guys! We can sell our names in the future and they are STILL good investment but ONLY if the names are developed and generating traffic. No one in India is buying parked names for high prices because they have too many other options for extensions and they want TRAFFIC and not just keywords.
Anyway, that's my opinion on this at the moment and it is based on my recent sales and figures for this year. Most businesses in India are wanting .INs with traffic that are fully developed. The GAME HAS CHANGED.
And yes, I have read about the positive developments happening in India BUT of course a lot of it has biased towards the government whom always put out positive messages, yet in real terms, India has A LOT more further to go to catch up with the rest of the world, check out this article:
40% of world to be online by 2013 end; India among the least-connected nations: UN report - Sci/Tech - DNA
So many more things that the government need to PUSH: education, policies, broadband infrastructure, loosen FDI policy, e-commerce, logistics, bandwidth, allocation of wireless frequencies, corruption, ICT into schools & colleges ect.......ect.....
The above WILL take MANY YEARS, we are talking 15-20 years at least to get these sorts of things sorted out and for India to catch up with USA, UK, CHINA, GERMANY, ect............
Yet so many on here are just sitting on their names, thinking that in 5 years time they will be millionaires! What a joke! START doing something with your names guys! Start DEVELOPING! Move FORWARD with your keyword names! I am in this for the long run which is why I am developing my names one by one and not just sitting on them for a while and trying to flip them for a few extra $s
This is NOT a get-rich-quick scheme guys!