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.in Internet domain name policy announced
Source Courtesy: The Tribune India | October 29, 2004
The government has announced a new policy for the .in Internet domain name.
Minister of Communications and Information Technology Dayanidhi Maran said the Internet domain name registration system will proliferate the Internet, connecting all ISPs of the country to the National Internet Exchange and is aimed to achieve efficient Internet traffic routing and cost reduction.
The new policy for .in domain name registration covers the following main elements:
Unlimited generic .in registration will be offered at the 2nd level of domain name and at the 3rd level in the globally popular zones of domain registration, like co.in, .net.in and .org.in.
Registrations will be carried out by registrars to be appointed by the .in Registry through an open process of selection on the basis of transparent eligibility criteria.
Registrations will follow a competitive pricing policy and best market practices. The minimum fee charged by the .in Registry will be Rs 250 and Rs 500 per year for registrations at the 3rd and 2nd levels, respectively.
The .in Registry will adopt Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), and will be assisted by a Dispute Resolution Committee to resolve disputes involving the Registry. It will also appoint arbitrators to address disputes involving the registrars and the registrants.
The entire process of registration will be online and should be completed in less than 24 hours of the receipt of the request from a registrant, Mr Maran said.
NIXI to register top domain names
Source Courtesy: Rediff | November 23, 2004
The government has appointed National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) as registrar for ‘.in’ country code top level internet domain names.
The NIXI as “INR” (.in.Registry) will implement the policy as per the Internet Domain Name Policy Framework and Implementation document of IT department.
As per the new policy, .gov.in will be exclusively for registering domain names under government departments, ministries and UTs, .ac.in and .edu.in will be for educational institutions and .mil.in for defence organisations, an official statement said on Tuesday.
For domain names .in.gov. the registrar will be NIC while for .ac.in, and .edu.in, it will be ERNET India and for .mil.in, it will be an organisation nominated by Ministry of Defence.
The system of registration of Internet domain names can facilitate the proliferation of Internet in a country. The Internet domain name registration system greatly proliferates the Internet, connecting all ISPs of the country to the NIXI and is aimed at achieving efficient Internet traffic routing and cost reduction, thereby improving the quality of service for the Internet users in India.
This will also help in increasing the PC penetration and bring cyber connectivity to every citizen, it said. The .in Registry will be assisted by a dispute resolution committee to resolve disputes involving the Registry. It will also appoint arbitrators to address disputes involving the registrars and the registrants.
The entire process of registration will be online and should be completed in less than 24 hours of the receipt of the request from a registrant.
India embraces .in domain
Source Courtesy: The Tribune India | January 7, 2005
Indian identity finally carved a niche in cyberspace following the extension of the .in domain name registry services as India Inc lined up to receive the country domain name from Communications Minister Dayanidhi Maran today.
Bidding bye to the .com domain names, the Tata Group is now online at tata.in, Tata Consultancy Services can be accessed at tcs.in while Bharti group’s Airtel has a new Website at airtel.in.
Among those who received registration certificates from the Minister were Tata Group Chief Ratan Tata, The Hindu Editor-in-Chief N Ram, Bharti group Chairman Sunil Mittal, Mr Aroon Purie of the India Today group, HCL Infosystems Chief Ajai Chaudhary and BSNL CMD A K Sinha.
“Currently, five lakh Indian companies are registered online and out of them, only 7,000 are with .in domain name. We are getting around 7,000 applications per day since January 1, when registration started,” Mr Maran told reporters at the launch of the services by the National Internet Exchange of India (Nixi) here.
“This is sunrise period to select addresses in their names, from which Indian companies can benefit till January 21. After this, during the silent period, we’ll go through the application forms.
After February 16, it’ll be free for all and the companies will have to choose from the leftover names,” he added.
The registration process for the official Internet domain of the country commenced from January 1, 2005.
.in Registry has been created by Nixi, promoted by the Department of Information Technology as a “not-for-profit” company in association with the Internet Service Providers Association of India. The registry has formulated new policies for the registration and administration of .in domain names.
Registrations at the third level in the globally popular zones of domain registration like ‘.co.in’ and ‘.org.in’ are also available.
The entire process of registration will be online and is expected to be completed in less than 24 hours from the receipt of the request from a registrant. — UNI
The .in thing
India joins the broadband wagon
Source Courtesy: The Tribune India | January 15, 2005
MORE and more national service providers, including BSNL, are providing access to broadband services, at rates which individuals can afford. In another development, mobile phone users will be able to access their Hotmail accounts while on the move, just as Yahoo! users have been able to do so for a while. The National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) opened a few days ago. All this has brought to the fore the power of the Internet — and its impact on Indian society — where it is steadily transforming a small, though important and expanding segment.
Much of brick and mortar corporate India, a veritable who’s who of blue-chip companies, had lined up to take paper certificates of their electronic domain names, at a ceremony in New Delhi last week. NIXI has lived up to its stated objective of facilitating improved Internet services in the country, and the .in Registry is an autonomous body primarily responsible for maintaining the .in country-code top-level domain and ensuring its operational stability, reliability, and security. The online move by corporate India would strengthen Indian identity in the cyber world. Many Indian companies have national trademarks, but were not able to get proper domain names in the first-level international domains like .com. Now they will be able to get the domain names that are similar to their trademarks. The move to give the first preference to owners of registered Indian trade marks before opening the domain names to the general public is commendable since it would prevent cyber-squatting, the bane of Internet domain allocations.
Hosting corporate sites in India will also get a boost, since such websites are typically low-traffic, which make these easier to handle. In any case, the nation also handles many Indian high-traffic portals with ease, and it is high time that a major outsourcing hub of the world became a hub of Internet operations in their entirety-domain registration, hosting and operations. The other major block needed to keep the IT industry moving up is broadband or high-speed connectivity. Now that this too is here, the IT community has much to cheer about.
Massive response to .in domain names
Source Courtesy: The Tribune India | April 7, 2005
The .in country code internet domain name Registry services set up by the National Internet Exchange of India (Nixi) have so far registered more than 1,00,000 till now in since the time it was officially launched about 90 days ago..in Registry has been created by the National Internet Exchange of India (Nixi) and is promoted by the Department of Information Technology (DIT) .
.in relaunch began in January with the opening of a 21-day Sunrise period for trademark owners. More than 2,000 names were registered during this period, or approximately 4 per cent of total registrations.
.in was officially opened to the public on February 16, 2005. More than 45,000 registrations, or 52 per cent of total names registered to date, were registered during the initial 24-hour period of this land rush. Subsequently, the name has grown to over 1 lakh names presently, an official statement said.
.in names are held by registrants from 108 different countries, the most popular of which are India, Germany, and the United States, which together account for over 80 per cent of registrations, the statement said.
