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.in domains gaining popularity

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.

If you observe carefully the demography of those who have registered from outside India, most of them are from Europe (especially Germany). Currently about 30,000 .in domains are registered every month. The registrations have increased because of the promo offered by NIXI. We at oneindia too have seen a marginal increase in .in registrations.

Residents of India have registered about 800,000 .com domains. So .in is not that far away from .com.

Verisign in its “Domain Industry Brief” has a more comprehensive view of the domains registered across the world.

Across the world 192 million domain names were registered (Dec 2009). An increase of 15% compared to 2008
78.6 million country code top level domains (.cn, .uk, .in) have been registered (Dec 2009)
Popular registrations are .com, .cn (China), .de (Germany), .net and .uk (United Kingdom)

Has Alexa changed the way they work?

On The India Street (http://www.theindiastreet.com/ ) I read, I’m not surprised by our winner but I am stunned by how close Rediff Classifieds came to Craigslist India in terms of page view Rank. According to Alexa, Craigslist India is about 46th most popular while Rediff Classifieds finishes a respectable 105;…

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Domain registration scam from China

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, (This is very urgent, Please forward this to your CEO.) Dear CEO, We are the…

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BG Mahesh

Internet application ideator and implementor. Been there and done that since early 1990s. I like to present data to the common man in the simplest manner on the internet.