[lzy]

I think you will want to go with the most common tld. In this case, .in for your home country and I believe .in adoption is strong enough in India?

The last thing you want is your emails going to a wrong tld:

[e-mail]

going to

[e-mail]

is very likely in your scenario for less tech-savvy contacts IMO.

[balladeer]

Thanks. I had similar thoughts. 9 character is not too big for a personal domain and .net is common enough, or most common after .com imho.

I think I will keep first-name .in and .net and let the nick-name.im expire after a year or two and share .net email to my contacts.