Template:Infobox top level domain Template:Infobox top level domain Template:Infobox top level domain .in is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for India.
Registry operator
The domain was originally managed by the National Centre for Software Technology (NCST) and its Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). The Government of India issued an executive order in 2004 to transfer responsibility for managing .in domains to the newly created INRegistry under the authority of the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI). The National Informatics Centre (NIC), ERNET, and the Ministry of Defence were appointed as registrars for the gov.in, res.in and ac.in, and the mil.in domains respectively.[1][2]
In August 2018, NIXI appointed Neustar Data Infotech (India), a subsidiary of Neustar Inc, to be the country's new registry services provider. Neustar completed migration of existing .in domains to its registry infrastructure in March 2019. Neustar added the ability to register Indian-language domains in native script by enabling end-to-end web portal language support.[3]
Second-level domains
Template:As of, liberalised policies for the Template:Mono domain allow unlimited second-level registrations under Template:Mono. Unlimited registrations under the previously structured existing zones are also allowed:[4]
- Template:Mono (available to anyone; used by companies, individuals, and organisations in India)
- Template:Mono (intended for banks, registered companies, and trademarks)
- Template:Mono (intended for shops, partnerships, liaison offices, sole proprietorships)
- Template:Mono (intended for Internet service providers)
- Template:Mono (intended for nonprofit organisations)
- Template:Mono (intended for general/miscellaneous use)
- Template:Mono (intended for individuals)
Zones reserved for use by qualified institutions in India:[4]
- Template:Mono (Older, for both educational and research institutes)[5][6]
- Template:Mono (Academic institutions)
- Template:Mono (Educational institutions)
- Template:Mono (Indian research institutes)
- Template:Mono (Indian government)
- Template:Mono (Indian military organisations)
Before the introduction of liberalised registration policies for the Template:Mono domain, only 7000 names had been registered between 1992 and 2004. Template:As of, the number had increased to over 610,000 domain names with 60% of registrations coming from India and the rest from overseas.[7] By October 2011, the number had surpassed 1 million domain names.[8] Template:As of, the number has more than doubled to over 2 million domain names.[9]
The domain Template:Mono is reserved for India's National Informatics Centre, but in practice most Indian government agencies have domains ending in Template:Mono.
Restrictions on use of .in domains
As per the terms and conditions of the Template:Mono registry, domain privacy is not allowed.[10]
Internationalised domain names and country codes
India plans to introduce internationalised domain names in the 22 local languages used in India. Template:As of, fifteen of these internationalised domain names were accepted by ICANN:
- Template:Mono (Devanagari), became available with the following zones:[11]
Devanagari string Transliterated string भारत .bharat कंपनी.भारत company.bharat विद्या.भारत vidya.bharat सरकार.भारत sarkar.bharat
- Template:Mono (Tamil), available Template:As of.[12]
- Template:Mono (Bengali), available Template:As of
- Template:Mono (Gurmukhī), only ਡਾਟਾਮੇਲ.ਭਾਰਤ Template:As of
- Template:Mono (Gujarati), available Template:As of
- Template:Mono (Telugu), available Template:As of
- Template:Mono (Urdu) only ڈاٹامیل.بھارت Template:As of (mainly right-to-left character order)
In 2016, an application for eight further domains were accepted. While Indian government also applied for .বাংলা(Bengali) it was given to competitive applicant Bangladesh Telecommunication company. They are not yet available (Template:As of):[13]
- Template:Mono (Kannada)
- Template:Mono (Assamese)
- Template:Mono (Kashmiri)
- Template:Mono (Malayalam)
- Template:Mono (Odia)
- Template:Mono (Sanskrit)
- Template:Mono (Santali)
- Template:Mono (Sindhi)
See also
- Country code top-level domain
- Internet in India
- .ai
- .tv
- Internationalised country code top-level domain
- Internationalized country code top-level domain
References
- ↑ About the .IN Registry. Registry.In. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
- ↑ INRegistry is owned by Indian Government.
- ↑ Neustar logs in for .IN Domain. The Economic Times(2 March 2019). Retrieved 23 March 2019.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 IN Registry Policies. Registry.In(1 January 2005). Retrieved 23 July 2017.
- ↑ ERNET Domain Registration. ERNET. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
- ↑ ERNET's registry. ERNET. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
- ↑ ‘.in' domain registration crosses six-lakh mark. The Hindu Business Line(13 March 2010). Retrieved 1 May 2012.
- ↑ .IN Passes One Million Registrations And Looks To Future For Growth. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
- ↑ There are Over 2 Million .in (India) Registered Domains.
- ↑ Terms and Conditions for registrants.
- ↑ Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs).
- ↑ https://தமிழ்.இந்தியா
- ↑ ICANN approves Kannada, Malayalam, Assamese & Oriya domain names, Pai, Vivek(18 April 2016).
External links and references
- IANA Whois information
- whois information
- Policies from the INRegistry website
- List of Accredited registrars for .in
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