.com vs .in
Your friend recommends a website to
you and you search and log on to the site. You come across scores of
websites, but you hardly pay attention to what is at the end of the
site’s name. By the end, I mean the three letter acronym that is placed
after a dot after the name of the site. For example, you know and even
discuss with your friends how informative and valuable the site called
Wikipedia is, but you are surprised when you see the three letter
acronym at the end of the name of site. It is Wikipedia.org, and not dot
com, which is what many expect to be at the end of every site. There
are classifications to describe the real nature of websites among which
dot com is the most famous. This three letter acronym at the end of the
website address is the domain suffix. The suffix ‘.com’ refers to the
fact that it is a commercial website. What then does the acronym dot
co.in mean? Let us take a closer look.
Initially, the three letter acronym
placed after the dot were supposed to carry information about the site
as to whether the site was meant for business (.com), non profit or
charity (.org), or a technology based site (.net). With the passage of
time, there was an explosion in terms of numbers of sites and it became
difficult to keep track on the real nature of a website. This system of
classification slowly became blurred, and today the situation is that
these suffixes can be used for any purpose. This is why today there is a
system to have a general, international commercial website denoted by
.com. In addition, to differentiate between similar websites coming from
different countries, there is a system to add two letter acronym for a
country after .com to specify the country of origin of a website. So if,
you are in India and see a website with .co.in suffix at the end of the
name of the site, you are sure that it is an Indian site.
So while, .in can be used by any company
or individual, if you see .co.in, it simply means that it is an Indian
company. In this manner, you can also see .net.in, .org.in and so on.
Thus, there is virtually no difference between sites, it is a system of
classifying a site according to its country of origin. Thus, you get to
see .au for Australian sites and .us for sites from US.
In brief:
Difference Between .com and .in
• There is virtually no difference
between ‘dot com’ and ‘dot in.’ If anything, dot com specifies that it
is an international commercial site.
• On the other hand, .in specifies that
the site is Indian just like the .au and .us that specify that the sites
belong to Australia and US respectively.
• Thus, you have Google.com and Google.co.in without having any differences in content and features.
