Berl.in domain hack - Would you use? (1.Viewing)

Berlin is obviously in Germany so using an Indian extension for something based in Germany is not necessarily ideal.

I also sincerely hope they read the Indian rules on .in because they do differ from the standard .com agreement.

Over half the time these "domain spans" are actually used for the word or letters before the TLD. Some keep promoting these sales as "hacks" (I hate that now-obsolete term) when the majority are not. I remember Sedo sold a pile of LL domains that created spanned words, but virtually all of them were eventually used as the LL acronym.

For example Berl is both a first name and a surname, so there is a chance someone bought it for the name and not the spanned domain. Or maybe not, it's around 60-40.

Nice hack, but I wouldn't trust the .IN registry enough to run anything important on a .IN.