Indian .IN v/s .COM in 2008 Tough fight

Recently .IN domains were introduced as an Indian domain extension. Now had gone far beyond just being that. News has it that lots of international players are booking .in domain name simply because .in can stand for internet and can even be used in context of speech term very much like how popular blogs like trak.in and pluggd.in have used them.

Cool terms like travel.in or fly.in and many others if you just use for your immigration company. Of course these many of these domains would be booked by domain squatters.

According to Net4 COO Desi Valli, “The total .com registrations from India are about 475,000. The .in domain registrations from India will overtake on many .com sites worldwide in 2008.”

Even domain extensions like .us .tv .fm have been used very innovatively like del.icio.us and .tv for video websites and .fm for online radio/audio streaming websites like last.fm. Few people know that .us is for us centric sites and .tv is the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for the island nation of Tuvalu while .fm is for the Federated States of Micronesia. Just goes to show that the internet is not only innovative with applications going forward it would also get innovative with domain name. As Bhavin Thakuria of Directi states we could soon see a .hr for hr sites and .am for am radio online going forward as well. All of this just going to add to the business possibilities and use of domains in context on the web.

So Guys get ready to use our own .in domain & show our own Silicon valley power. Get ready to new shining India.