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Old 07-31-2006, 03:25 AM
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Re: HELL NO for Indian IDNs

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Originally Posted by drbiohealth
Ravi,

There is little doubt that you have a very good generic co.in portfolio "keyword" wise. Good work! However, the worrisome part is that even with such great keyword domains and with "English" internet at the helm in India today these domains still receive pretty low traffic proportionally (from your stats). Where do you expect future traffic growth to come from on these domains - new English speakers in India (I thought they were already online)? Contrastingly, I imagine that these keywords in .com would easily be receiving traffic in excess of 100000 per month. However, you have taken a very good decision to develop them.

Strangely, it shows zero entry for gov.co.in even with that "big" traffic.
Rajesh,
I am not undermining the importance of IDN but I am defending the place for .in & .co.in in Indian context.


My guess is most Indians do not randomly go to any Indian Sites. They go to specific sites mostly by word of mouth or based on advertisement or by typo error (evident from the traffic surge I receive on Osmania the day results are announced).
(Its a different story at Cyber cafes)
So even with IDN's it will have to be developed or indexed well to get any decent traffic.


Regarding Gov.co.in Traffic
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The traffic stated for Gov.co.in is monthly traffic and is ranked 423rd in Ranking.net
Most of them are typin or typo for *.Gov.in (There are 60+ popular .gov.in in top 1000).

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