There is absolutely nothing new is your message. What you mention here has all been discussed before on this forum and elsewhere n-times. It amazes me that you are not even aware that MS OS is now available in all major Indian languages including Hindi. Typing any Indian language is not a problem, check out
http://www.baraha.com/ . You don't seem to sense the trend which can be your best friend ..
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They say, greater the uncertainty higher are the stakes/returns. And that's precisely because of uncertainty that you still have "good though not tier I" Indic names available. Go to English domain market (with negligible uncertainty and tested model) and tell me how many even mediocre domains are still available there.
Here is something from a recent news item,
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The starting point of this initiative is that people in India prefer to use their own language for computing.
Raman: For most of the people living in rural areas, the first issue is that they don't have Internet connectivity. Even if connectivity does improve, and people are able to get on the Internet, the basic problem they would still face is using the computer, because the applications would be in English. We thought that if we could make some basic tools like the browser available in the local language, people will start using this software without having to learn a new language. English is used by only about 5 percent of people in the country, and if we want people to start using computers, we can't expect them to go learn English. So there is a huge market out there for computing in local languages, which is why Microsoft is offering Indian-language versions of their products.
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http://www.pcwelt.de/news/englishnews/114859/
http://www.hindu.com/2006/07/28/stor...2818160900.htm
http://www.itnewsonline.com/showstor...tid=8&contid=1
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Originally Posted by kartik786
I just went thru the blunders made by everyone here by purchasing hindi domain names.
Let me tell you why.
First of all, there is no operating system which serves hindi. If there is no one is aware of it .
Millions of people living in metro cities and even some affluent high income families in India dont own a pc , and if they do, they dont have a internet connection.
If they do have a internet connection or a pc, its quite obvious that they will be having a good knowledge of ENGLISH language and they would waste time searching on google for hindi names.
Villagers seldom have computers. Only the LEET to be specific and even those have keyboards with english characters. It would be a pain in the neck just to learn how to type a word in hindi from a english character keyboard.
I stay in Mumbai, which is one of the best cities in India and is also known as business hub.
Trust me guys, dont waste you money on these Hindi IDN's .
PS : These are just my views and you might want to laugh on it.. but its what I feel as an indian.
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