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Jun 09How i.in led to chupchap.in
I had promised here to narrate the long story behind this domain I bought and how I set it up. It all started with me being confused about what kind of domain I wanted to buy. Should it be chupchap.com, chupchap.in a shorter domain like chup.in or something even shorter. I just wasn’t sure; just indecisive. Yet another problem with young people these days I suppose. 
So what do most people do when they want a domain? Head to who.is to check if the domain they want is available and that’s what I did. I searched chupchap.com and chupchap.in, and to my pleasure, found that both of them were available. So what now? Should I go ahead and register them or waste more time searching for shorter, but not necessarily better domain? I decided to waste some more time.
So I thought if I wanted a magical domain name what would it be? The first domain name that came to my head was i.in. After all this blog is all about me; I hardly write about anyone else no?
So I searched and to my surprise (very very surprised) I found that it was still available. Oh My God, the shortest domain possible, a premium one and it’s available! So I headed straight to eWebguru, where my gaming blog is hosted. I booked it in three easy steps at around Rs1,600, which is a standard rate at the host.
I was rejoiced, after all I have a premium domain, I could start a impossible-to-make-profit-off URL shortening service, an email service or sell it off at a higher price. I was overjoyed. So overjoyed that I decided to share it with my followers at twitter. After a round of congratulatory tweets, someone pointed it out to me. It is impossible for me to own such a domain. Turns out, all one-character and two-character domains, are reserved by government and NIXI order, and are not available to the public. For example I could buy abc.in but not a.in or ab.in 
I was heart broken. After filing for a support ticket, which was answered in fifteen minutes, I was given an option to opt for any other .in domain. This time, I did not try to experiment. I opted for chupchap.in and by next day my domain was active. But every day when I visit my blog (to find that 25 people landed up on my blog and they came via image search aaargh!)I wish it was i.in and imagine having a four/five/six figure bank dollars (in dollars I mean).
If you are interested in setting up your blog/website, you can try out eWebguru where my blog is hosted. You will get a good deal if you follow this link. This link is part of their referral program which I have signed up for, but this post is in no way sponsored by them.
June 11th, 2009 at 4:44 am
i see
luxembourg..
psst, ba.lu is not valid, but nba.lu is valid and available
ma.nu is booked till 2010
June 11th, 2009 at 10:21 am
But for that I need a credit card, which I don’t have. Plus they cost more
June 12th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
haha.. nice! When I started reading I was wondering HOW you managed to get i.in , then sell it and buy chupchap.in.
Then found out it was about you “trying” to buy and failing
many people endup in my site because of image search too.. its a good thing I guess ;P
June 12th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
The worst part was people searching for middle finger and landing up on this post http://is.gd/ZL6T in my wordpress.com blog
It was a lot of :poop:
June 12th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Thank God i.in did not work!
Whatever gave you that idea??
This one is much better!
June 13th, 2009 at 8:59 am
LOL if I got i.in I wouldn’t have used it for my blog =D I would have tried to make some money out of it =P
June 13th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
aah :smug: never mind.. thanks for dropping by =)
June 13th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
aiyaah….i should have visited your blog earlier, so could have taken up the referral offer. Took up a hosting/domain deal with justhost only a week ago.
July 19th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
nice! i’m gonna make my own blog
July 20th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Striking story
But .in must be expensive than .com right?
.-= Thejesh GN´s last blog ..Tweet4Blood on SkyNews =-.
July 20th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Nope .in costs Rs300 while .com around Rs450 at ewebguru. I bought .com for my gaming blog
You can check out the price list here
http://client.ewebguru.com/domainchecker.php