Indiana-based ChaCha has plans for ChaCha India? UPDATE1

Warning: you may be occasionally tongue-tied when reading the below blogpost

ChaCha's mobile answer service, textChaCha, is currently provided on a free trial basis to consumers in the U.S. only. Although plans for launching textChaCha in other markets haven't been announced, that isn't stopping some bloggers from speculating. The folks at WatBlog.com - an India-centered Web 2.0 blog - are quite excited about the possibility of a future launch of textChaCha in India.

ChaCha Search, Inc., headquartered in Indiana, already has a presence in India. In addition to its 60 employees in Carmel, Indiana, ChaCha Search, Inc., has 'two support sites in India,' according to WatBlog contributor Rupesh Mandal. This idea of a textChaCha India launch isn't, however, mere speculation. ChaCha apparently has plans to launch ChaCha India at some point - it owns the domains ChaCha.co.in and ChaCha.in, which presently redirect to ChaCha.com in its English language version, the only such version known to exist. We didn't find ChaCha in other ccTLDs during a quick search of other international domain registrations.

Our readers are well aware of the fact that ChaCha's shortcode '242242' is registered across many tlds and that ChaCha Search, Inc., also registered various typo-variants of 242242.com, which redirects to and is the unannounced mobile portal for ChaCha.com. We now are pleased - although others may not be so pleased - to announce the fact - get your domain registrar passwords ready - that 242242.co.in and 242242.in are available. Those numeric domains would be good companions to ChaCha.co.in and ChaCha.in when ChaCha Mobile - the mobile browser version of ChaCha.com - is launched in India.

Update: ChaCha Search, Inc., registered 242242.in on February 7, 2008. The domain 242242.co.in may be in the process of being 'requested' by Key-Systems GmbH, ChaCha's choice of registrar.