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As I regularly check .in domain name availability, today I searched Payme.in and noticed that it directs to PaymeIndia.in.  Thought this was a great way to show how a 3 word domain is using a shorter domain hack as a way to direct customers to their business.  Had PayMeIndia.in not acquired the domain “Payme.in”, they would have never earned my or hundreds of thousands of other users business that type in a name, instead of using google.  That is the power of a type in domain that no one can take away or replicate.   Google can delist you or move your business to the third page of rankings, but cannot stop a user from typing in a domain and directing them to your website. Businesses (and more importantly the advertising & marketing depts) in India that understand the instant credibility and category dominance a  premium type in domain brings, will be much better positioned than their competitors.  The earlier to the game, the easier it will be to acquire these great domains, and as has been evident over the past few years the prices will continue to increase as the demand increases.

Another interesting fact about this name is that they decided to move forward to use the PayMeIndia.in domain inspite of the domain PayMeIndia.com being an established business.  Here is the history of registrations:

21-Nov-2007 – PayMe.in registered
30-Aug-2015 – PayMeIndia.com registered
04-Jun-2016 – PaymeIndia.in registered

Please do share with us more use cases if you come across any….

CAR 279
SHOES 276
UOK 268
GUNS 261
MOBILES 227
MOBILE 214
ROMANCE 205
IPHONE 202
JOLLY LLB 2 194
KWC. IN 194
OK JAANU 194
JOLLY LLB 191
TOPS 187
MY MUSIC.IN 186
NAMEPLATE 183
SAFESHOP 181
ADMIT CARD 180
RIFLE 178
VACANCY 178
AMMUNITION 175
SEX 175
JIO 173
UOK.IN 173
INSURANCE 170
2553WALTHER 169
AIR RIFLE 168
WWW.DJ ALTER IN 168
FOOTWEAR 166
SHOE 165
WOMAN WER 164
GUN 163
ARMS 161
BAGS 161
ONION 161
DC MOTOR RPM 160
MURUGAN 159
INS.IN 158
BB GUN 157
WHOLESALE.IN 157
KAABIL 156
WOMAN 156
WWW.BODYBILDER.IN 156

Since we just did a post on top 20 domains for this year, thought to do a top 20 ALL TIME highest recorded domains and their .in counterparts:

1.   Sex.in:  NIXI (IN)
2.   Fund.in:  India Portals (IN)
3.   Porn.in: Christoph Hartmann (DE)
4.   Porno.in: Itay Elnatan (US)
6.   Diamond.in:Wang Shuang (CN)
8.   Slots.in:  Private
9.   Toys.in: India Portals (IN)
10.   Clothes.in: India Portals (IN)
14.  Whisky.in: Michael Trommsdorff (FR)
15.  Vodka.in: Michael Marcovici (Cayman Islands)
17.  Shopping.in: India Portals (IN)
18.  CreditCards.in:Christoph Hartmann (DE)
20.  Social.in: Telepathy (US)

Lets see who owns these domains in .in (have eliminated the 2 character names as NIXI has no plans to release those for now):

1.  Fly.in:  Julia von der Bey (DE)
2.  Freedom.in:  Kalpesh Patel – GODREJ (IN)
5.  MyWorld.in: Peter Gregory (GB)
7.   Lola.in:  Dean Chandler (CA)
8.   Place.in: Travel India (IN)
9.   Refi.in:  Paul Singh (US)
10. Asset.in: Raju Todi (IN)

Here is a list of the top 10 all time domain sales:

 

Todays hand reg is nacho.in.  This domain has great potential not only as a food/restaurant website but also as a online dance faceoff as the word ‘nacho’ also translates to ‘dance’ in the Indian language.

Nachos.in is owned by our very own Mr. S.R.   Combined the singular and plural (nacho and nachos) would be a killer brand combination to introduce Spanish food to 1.3B.  I visualize franchises in India already….

Here are all the (single letter)coin.in domains that are taken:

A breakdown of where the registrations are coming from:

Bcoin – Italy
Ecoin – USA
Gcoin – China
Icoin – India (our very own Mr. SM)
Kcoin.in – Vietnam
Mcoin.in – India
Rcoin.in – China
Scoin.in – India
Vcoin.in – Poland (our very own PP)
Xcoin.in – USA
Zcoin.in – Iran

SlapStick.in – For that special type of comedy.  Brandable and memorable too…
TopTwenty.in – If you can’t find results in the top 20, you’re not searching TOP TWENTY!  (need to get top20.in which is owned by Venkat)
BuyChocolates.in – Since Chocolates.in is taken by Mr. Mubashir himself, this comes in the top 10 ‘chocolate’ names for .in

Nice pickup at HealthX.in MR.CJ