Unless its a regularly visited top brand site, I would find it difficult to distinguish between the two extensions in/co.in for a generic term. I don't know but somehow I don't feel comfortable with two equal level competing guys. .com remained .com till today simply because .net could never reach its level. I don't say there won't be any market for them, but just that they might be too similar to have any "great" potential individually in traffic terms.
I had a few co.in domains, like bonus.co.in and a few others and I sold them all as well.....almost no traffic.
Regarding the ranking you have shown, that's no surprise to me as I don't expect a zero market for them simply because, i) people there want to have a web presence now, ii) no decent .com is available to them, and iii) now they have a choice in co.in/.in.
The bone of contention, however, is the "traffic" on generic names in these extensions. Even with all "English" internet surfers in India today, there is hardly any traffic in these exts. in proportional terms. Below is just a sampling of co.in on US overture. You would observe that most of these names are popular brands and not generics. Talking about generics with ext, sex.co.in receives just 321 points and gov.in is at 521 while I see no entry for gov.co.in. If gov.co.in indeed receives the awesome amount of traffic that you have quoted, then it should have shown atleast some entry in the US overture. However, there is none.
I would be curious to know what traffic your co.in domains receive, particularly those that are not indexed by Google.
2045 google co.in
479 yahoo co.in
446 co.in
217 irctc co.in
117 co.in game
112 hutch co.in
81 co.in crime dairy etv
70 co.in usa vfs
67 vfs co.in
62 bsnl co.in
58 nokia co.in
45 co.in india
42 al co.in trucking
42 yahoo mail co.in
31 citibank co.in
31 co.in dataone
31 sex co.in
41517 rediff.com
26108 indiatimes.com
19233 sify.com
16882 google.co.in
1921 game.co.in
953 games.co.in
321 sex.co.in
240 sex.in
581 gov.in
Also, if you look at the ranking.com site, it gives weird results. I just checked these two,
Country Rank Web Rank Domain Overture
103 35,190 sifymax.in 145
115 40,452 airtel.in 4179
Does that mean ranking.com is not ranking according to traffic? Not clear.
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Originally Posted by a2zofb2b
Rajesh,
I do not agree with you.
Currently, .co.in has strong "memory recall" value .
Both .in & .co.in are getting more popular.
Of the top 1000 Indian sites listed in Ranking.com
100+ are .com
250+ .co.in
300+ .in (some companies have changed thier .co.in sites to .in)
50+ .gov.in
(no wonder, wot gets close to 45,000+ visitors on his gov.co.in)
100+ .ac.in
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