What in a domainname works with a user? Keywords or Trust?

Friday, December 23rd, 2011

Recently I read an article "Domain Name Matters: Searchers Pick Brand Over Quality, Study Finds" which talks about what kinds of domain name works well with a user (and possibly search engines).  Is it important to have keywords or should the brand be trustworthy to make a domainname work?

Will Hindi domain names increase the usage of internet in India?

Friday, November 4th, 2011

For a while the discussion about domain names in Indian language has been going on. India is about to get its own internationalized domain names (IDNs). China and Russia have their own IDNs for a while now.

Domain names in Indian languages to be released soon

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Today's Mint reports domain names in regional languages will be released soon. There has been talk about this for a while now, it would be interesting to see how the usage of language domainnames will pick up in India.

Domain registration scam from China

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Google has several articles about domainname registration scam from China. Periodically I do receive emails from these domain registrars in China trying to entice you to blocking more domains. One of them is listed below,

.in domains gaining popularity

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

A total of 600,000 .in domains have been registered [source Hindu]. Of these 380,000 have been registered from India and 230,000 overseas.