Its our.in | India's Pride
Its often discussed the importance of .IN in India. Many has asked me the question .. which one is India’s default domain extension. My confident answer to them is .IN , Its indeed one and only the default domain extension of India. Its quite obvious to have the top 10 websites having many .COM names, this is not quite surprising many countries where CCTLDs is the number one has the similar trends including UK and China too. What is important to notice those global businesses which has offering their services are re-directing the .IN to .COM websites. An important point one to remember is .IN is open for registration only starting Feb-2005
I was just curious, what are the top 10 Alexa Indian Websites and bit of analysis to understand the .IN importance. All top 10 websites has registered .IN and at least .IN is forwarded to .COM
| Website | .IN Registered ? | .IN in use? | Our.in Analysis |
| Google.co.in | Yes | .IN is forwarded to .co.in | Google.co.in has been registered on 3-Jun-2003 14:02:33 UTC , at that time .IN registrations are not open for public and companies , hence google has launched with .co.in. Google has been established as .co.in in India and hence the .IN URL is re-directed to .CO.IN |
| Google.com | Yes | .IN is forwarded to .co.in | Google.com is obvious top 20 website across several countries |
| YouTube.com | Yes | .IN and .CO.in are forwarded to .COM | Youtube.in and Youtube.co.in both registered on 21-Mar-2006 |
| Facebook.com | Yes | .IN is forwarded to .COM .CO.IN is owned by a private Individual and not in use |
FaceBook.in registered on 12-Jul-2016 Facebook.co.in registered on 11-Sep-2005 by Mike Khan from Hyderabad Greater chances for us seeing the next INDRP by Facebook as Facebook has formed in Feb 2004 ( also trade marked ) much before the actual domain registered , Its so surprising Facebook has not focused to acquire this name so far who are in general very aggressive in protecting their trade marks |
| Yahoo.com | Yes | .IN and .CO.in are forwarded to .COM | Yahoo.in is registered on 09-Mar-2006 Yahoo.co.in is registered on 30-Jun-2003 |
| Amazon.in | Yes | .Co.in forwarded to .IN | Amazon also acquired a domain name AMZ.in for URL shortner paying a premium price in a private transaction |
| Wikipedia.org | Yes | .IN forwarded to .COM .CO.in is owned by private Individual and not in use |
Wikipedia.in is registered on 07-Apr-2013 and owned by Wikipedia Wikipedia.co.in registered on 07-May-2012 by a Bangalore based person Another example of .co.in is not owned by a popular web brand, very likely a higher chances of a new INDRP case. |
| Flipkart.com | Yes | .IN forwarded to .COM .co.in not in use |
Flipkart.in is registered on 25-Sep-2007 and owned by Flipkart Flipkart.co.in is registered on 11-Jan-2011 and owned by Flipkart |
