Which one do you think is better? .co.in or .in?

Most of the big sites (Yahoo, Google, etc.) have their addresses on .co.in, not .in, even though .in is twice as more expensive as .co.in

Absolutely no doubt, simply on traffic .co.in beats .in by 10-1 at least.

But will definitely be some good .in sales as it has other uses . Indiana, Indonesia etc.

definitely co.in… around longer and gets more traffic… domainer thinks that because .in is shorter then it’s better…. NOPE…. it’s been branded a bit more being the primary Indian extension… I never buy .in….. it’s a domainer’s extension

Its totally depend on the kind of business, if there is any indian comercial organization which think their website can attract revenue for them then they use .co.in, else if there ant corporate indian company which need website just for their presence on web and to share some info they use .in.

I always thought .co.in was for “companies” mainly..that is why google, yahoo..etc use it..I recently registered my first .co.in so we’ll see how it goes

For some web devolopment .in is the best.
If own a company then co.in is better.

yeah but I’ve found more .co.in to be available than .in
thats kinda strange considering that .co.in has so much more traffic.

.in is best

Most of the users were using .co.in before .in was not introduced. But nowadays I have seen many companies are owning .in domains. That is because .in looks better than .co.in

I have came across many good keyword but these are not available in .com but .ca domains available to register. My question is… are they worth it?

You have to be a resident or business in Canada though to register .ca’s

There is great value in .ca. Considering any .ca website I have operating gets anywhere from 25-60% of the traffic from US sources, it’s clear they get equal play on google.com, yahoo, msn etc.

But unless you can meet the residency requirements you can’t register .ca domains.

you must be a resident of Canada, or have a business here, or some kind of tie to Canada.

With the .ca TLD market growing over the last year I am curious to hear what you feel are the greatest challenges facing the .ca domain name space during the next five years?

Any thoughts or opinions?

Canada’s relatively small population – if we were a nation of 100 or 300 million, with the exposure .ca gets now, imagine what the demand for good names would be like, and the online marketing opportunities to a population like that. Not that a huge population would necessarily be good, for other reasons. If .us had the same use by government and business in the US that .ca has in Canada, then .us would be a much more valuable extension.

A smaller challenge is always .com, because it is just as good to use in Canada as .ca. But this is a lesser challenge because it’s hard to find quality names in .com

I don’t see many challenges now, .ca is widely used and accepted in Canada, have a small population but internet penetration is high, and better and easier technology will help ensure more .ca domains get developped – which helps. The same rules apply to .com though, good names will increase in demand, and crappy names will stay crappy.

What does “.fm” stand for? Is it cctld?

What is your opinion about this?

.fm stands for FM radio.

FM is Micronesia, it’s ccTLD. TV is Tuvalu. FM also happen to be my initials, so I could not resist buying a domain there.

.fm is not as popular as .tv.
But in my opinion .fm sounds cool and people will hear it soon.
I hope you can keep me up to date about this extension.

I think that .info has failed?
what is your opinion and why?

If .info sucked you would be able to catch great names when they drop. This is not always possible now. It’s taken 5 years for .info to get this far. I think the increase in sales is overdue and I hope to see more in the future…especially from me.

I’m hoping it’s not a failure! Cos i got one on sedo auction right now! Not a hot auction with loads of bids but it’s got a bid so it’s gonna sell no matter what!

No it has not failed. It continues to be registered. People are grabbing .info’s that drop and their sales continue to slowly climb in both volume and price.

No, I see more and more .info’s in the search engines as well – another sign that it is being developed and recognized.

I think .Info is good.

.info sales have really climbed significantly.

By “investing” in the .info extention you’ve bought thousands of premium names to park with ppc, IMHO you’re actually a good part of the reason why the extentions value is low.

Its surprising the amount of traffic to the .infos. When I first registered one, I didnt think it would get any traffic. I’ve never owned any Vietnamese .infos, though Im sure they would receive traffic since that one has over 10K ovt w/ext.

I don’t think so.In fact .info is the most successful “new” gtld expect .mobi.

What happened to .NAME ???
Is it completely “dead” ???

I think that extension is a completely failure.

Yes, it is completely dead.

I have one .name and It is pretty much worthless.

Has it ever been alive ?

I am trying to sell my .name domains, but it is really hard to find buyers. I think that extension is a failure.

Its not intuitive.

Any thoughts on .hk?

have there been any aftermarket sales of .hk or .co.hk at all if so can you post names and prices.

.hk Chinese Domain Name not english.

As mush as I love .mobi, I prefer .hk over the long term. In China, I think they have a saying; “the stones that take longer to heat up, glow warm for longer”

Which TLD is MORE “VALUABLE”: .BIZ or .US???

give your opinion.

.us is better than .biz

I vote .us

.us is best

.us for sure… .biz never picked up any serious steem

I rank .US ABOVE .biz as wall as .NET

.us because .biz is currently undervalued.

I think .us will always be valued higher from now on, but I completely agree that .biz is massively undervalued. .US is much stronger in the reseller market, but to a lot of end users, .biz is the better known of the two.

What do you think about .es extension ? .es going to be worth anything? Or not much at all?

I think many good names are still available. Also It have a brand name in half of the EU countries.

No one is going to register .es domain.

.es extension is not so good.

Yep! but that is a good thing…if no one wanted them they would be worthless. I got some nice keywords but they are in english..only a few spanish keywords. Either way I think they will do well. Right now I am paying 20 bucks a pop for them, I wonder what the price will be once they are available (not on preorder)?

Hi,

Could anyone comment as in the current value of .biz and .info ?

I think .info and .biz have a good future. They are generally the next best top level domains after .com, .net, .org. Once those three are taken then the info and biz are next best if you want to promote worldwide, and they are usually shown in the results anywhere you reg domains, so they are visible. Or, you can also use your own country tld.

The value of .info is certainly going to rise in the near future there’s no doubt about it, while the value of .biz will rise as the availability of other TLDs for commercial purposes is declining but it may take a few more years

For information sites .info is obviously the one, there have been multiple $x,xxx sales although things seem to have dried up of late.

The .biz extension I do not see, for a start their is a .bz extension (Belize) and with the correct marketing that could take a lot of any potential traffic from the .biz suffix.

I think if anyone of you owns a lot of .biz and .info…domains… you should put some of them to use as developed websites. A developed website beats out any parking plan anyday…however the reason I’m saying this is …for example…

I read somewhere that only about 30% of .biz tlds are developed as proper websites as compared to about 80% of .com tld and also high figures for .net tld.

The current view is that .biz is a less desirable .tld and one of the reasons is people think its a speculative tld….and not mainstream… so there you go. Most people may not know it exists.