Success.co.in wasn’t quite one, in today’s Bido auction.

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I’m a huge .co.in and .IN fan, so I was psyched for today’s Bido auction of Success.co.in. Not Psyched about the name, but psyched about the crazy tiny possibility, if all the right bidders were present, and all the right stars were aligned, that it could hit 4 figures and jumpstart the .CO.IN market. I knew this wouldn’t happen, my prediction on INforum.in was that it would hit $200 tops, so I undershot a little bit. I wouldn’t call the sale price of $292 a “failure” persay, but it certainly wasn’t any real success either. The name got a little bit more than I would expect it to get in a quick-flip forum posting. It’s solid, but not fantastic. Just very AVERAGE. It has no real clear cut use, just another in a long line of dictionary brandables that can easily be found on the forums for $XX.

I was hoping Bido would pull something absolutely spectacular from it’s submissions to be the very first .CO.IN auction on it’s platform. It almost seemed like they chose the name based on the easy PR headline they could have had afterwards “Success is a Success at Bido!”. I love Bido, I love the whole idea. My only gripe is they only have 1 auction a day. I know that’s the whole theme of the site, but it would be nice to have maybe one .COM auction and one ccTLD auction per day. Or maybe theme weeks of all one extension, who knows. Oh yeah, I have one other gripe, I live in Hawaii so if I ever want to bid or watch the proceedings, I have to wake up way too early to catch it!

I’ll be up early soon though when MY co.in domain is featured on Bido. I’m not sure I can reveal the name, so I won’t yet. But it’s a whole lot nicer than “success”, and is a service used worldwide. 112,000,000 Google results, 35 million combined monthly searches of the term and it’s 2 close variants.

Either way my auction goes,high or low, it should be a better indicator of the health of the  current .IN/.CO.IN market than “success” was.

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PS-I don’t know how, I don’t know why, I don’t know how they found me, but a large US candy bar corporation has opened up a PranaDot account! SWEET. If you guys are reading this, maybe we can work out a trade for some chocolate!