Weekly Sales Report of Indian Domains

The highlight of the week was a very large number of LLL.in sales, most of them premium LLL.in at very good prices.

There were many successful sales by INForum members:

Meditang sold the domain Kgb.in for $5,000 and another undisclosed LLL.in for $1,200.

Johnny sold Tpa.in for €1000 or about $1,300 to an enduser.  He also had another undisclosed LLL.in enduser sale for $1,800.  He successfully sold a number of LLL.in to other resellers, including Bpa.in for $135, Pcf.in for $100, Fbf.in for $65, Gcr.in for $62, and Mnf.in for $58.

There were also a lot of LLL.in on auction at Sedo this week:

Tss.in sold for $200.  Stp.in took home $330.  Rtn.in closed at $80.  Rsc.in ended at $80.  Ipc.in wound up at $205.  Mna.in sold for $80.  Hcm.in closed at $120.  I think that this shows the strength of the LLL.in market.

The numeric domain 688.in commanded $70.

iPromote.in ended at $550.

The rerun of the auction for Onion.in failed to meet reserve and did not sell.  I’m not sure what the highest bid was, but shortly before closing the bidding was only at 80 Euro.

Upcoming auctions of Indian domains at Sedo include:  Inp.in, Isu.in, 747.in, and Bunnies.in.

More Endusers Buying Indian Domains

Note: This is guest post contributed by Ed Keay-Smith of OzDomainer and LaptopNomads.

About 6 months ago I made a list of about 500+ .co.in & .in domains that I was looking at registering.

I purchased about 100+ of the ones that I liked the best and left the rest for later or in this case other people.

One domain that I did not register was pvcpipes.in. A very good name, but I had others to deal with.

Well, checking back on it and others I see that quite a few of them have been registered by companies and NOT (as far as I can tell) by domainers.

The company that now owns pvcpipes.in is a manufacturer in India of you guessed it – PVC Pipes.

It is a trend that I think will get stronger as the Indian domain market gets more recognition from the Indian population.

What other choice do local Indian businesses have if the .com of their generic domain is gone?  Hey, let’s get our own ccTLD instead.  It will be a great deal cheaper and in most cases more relevant to people in India.

IMHO, the Indian market is where the .com market was 10 years ago.

If you do your research and look at the stats for strong keyword rich domains you WILL find some great unregistered domains today that someone or some company will want tomorrow or 6 months from now.

I am putting a great deal of time and money into this and I am confident that it will pay off over the next few years.

Shame I did not register pvcpipes.in, could of had a buyer.

PS. pvcpipes.co.in is still available

Indian Domain Sales Report

There have been a lot of sales of Indian domains since our last sales report – many small sales and a few larger ones.

The biggest sale was that of Welcome.in – a great hack that went for EUR 5,250 or about $6,690 in a private transaction.  This sale placed #11 in our record board of top reported sales of all time.  It was sold by the same person who sold 123.in, the holder of the #9 position in our record board.

LastMinuteTravel.co.in sold in a private transaction for $1,550.  The sale was to the owner of LastMinuteTravel.com.

There is another end user sale I just found out about that took place in February 2008 – the sale of Atom.in for $2,400 EUR to the owner of Atom.su.

In addition to the above large sales, there have been a number of three letter sales on Sedo over the last few days.  Eur.in sold for $198.  Eau.in sold for $70.  Lar.in went for $90.  Bau.in commanded for $98.  Sse.in sold for $90.  Ccm.in went for $90.  Wie.in sold for $60.  I think that these sales give a good reading of the state of the market for premium LLL.in.

Finally, there has been an interesting numeric sale – 1000.in sold for $260 on Sedo.

There are currently a lot of Indian domains on auction at Sedo.  Most of the auctions are for LLL.in, including Tss.in, Stp.in, Rts.in, Rsc.in, Ipc.in, Mna.in, and Hcm.in.

There is also an interesting NNN.in for auction at Sedo – 688.in.  iPromote.in is also on auction.  Finally, a previous auction for Onion.in has been cancelled and is now being re-run.

Weekly Indian Domain Sales Report

A very quiet week on the Indian domain sales front.  The only sale that I am aware of is SexClubs.in for 260 EUR or $338.

There is currently only one Indian domain on auction at Sedo currently – MobileWorld.co.in.  This auction closes in a few hours.

To find out more about investing in Indian domains, join the discussion at INForum.in – home of the Indian domain industry.