The demand for .IN Domains is still unbroken

Germany is still the # 1 country infront of .U.S. for .IN DomainRegistrations outside of India, resulting in a total market share ofapprox. 10.8%.

.IN the official ccTLD of India recently liberalized their registrationpolicies allowing anybody worldwide to register .IN (co.in, org.in,net.in, firm.in, gen.in and ind.in) Domains. The relaunch of .IN withthe new policies commenced in January with a 21 day Sunrise-Period,whereas interested parties could register their trademarks. During thisso-called Sunrise Period more than 3.400 Domains were registeredsuccessfully. The first domain registered in Germany during the SunrisePeriod was "Bertelsmann.in" and the first domain registered during the "Landrush"(live registration) period on February 16th 2005 was "furniture.in".

More than 52% of all .IN domains registered so far, were during thefirst 24 hours of the registry opening their gateway to the public onFebruary 16th 2005. Since then (as of March 13th 2005) more than 9.500.IN domains were registered by German registrants. Afilias Inc,. theregistry service provider for .IN, has counted individual registrantsfrom more than 108 countries worldwide.

Even with the successful launch of .IN and the fact that 52% of all domains registered so far were executed on the first day, the demand for .IN Domains still remains unbroken. Many attractive domains are still available directly beneath .IN or beneath theThird-Level-Domains "co.in", "net.in", "org.in", "firm.in", "gen.in (general)" and "ind.in (Individuals)".

Source: Afilias Limited