Godaddy Announce sales of Indian domain extensions

Well, with recent news announced that Godaddy will now be offering the .in extension, as well as 3rd tier extensions like .co.in, which are all the country level codes of India, all I can say is I am amazed it has taken this long! Bob Parsons is rarely one to hang about when there is money to be made by flogging just about any old donkey extension, as can be seen by the recent over enthusiastic promotion of .me, so I am surprised that one with more credibility than 90% of the new extensions has taken so long to be offered by the world’s most popular registrar…

I am, and have always been a big believer in the .in extension. Coming from the UK, it is easy to see the way a well marketed country code can become the accepted norm, even over .com in many cases. The .co.uk extension is a huge success, and I firmly believe that as the itnernet becomes more and more widely available in India, the value of good names in the Indian extensions will rise.

The news that Godaddy will be promoting and selling .in and its counterparts is great news for the extension as a whole, and anybody with a vested interest in its success. Needless to say, I will soon showcase some of my own indain names here at Accurate Name.