.IN Registry Opens Registrations for General Public
16 February 2005
The National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), operator of the
.IN Registry, today announced the opening of the real-time registration
for the recently lauched .IN TLD.
The registry has formulated new policies for the registration and
administration of .in domain names, which includes the .in Sunrise
Policy and the .in Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (INDRP).
Within an hour of the land rush today, nearly 24,000 domain names
were registered successfully.
NIXI, currently has accredited Directi, Net4India Limited, GoodLuck
Domains, OnlineNIC, Netandhost.com (S.G.S.Technologies Private Limited),
MPS Technosoft Ltd., Silicon House, Pioneer Online, Reseller SRS,
InCyber Advertising, Ascio Technologies, eNom, Internetx, IP Mirror,
Key-Systems GmbH, Silicon House, Sipence, Inc and Mobile Name Services,
Inc to register .in domain names.
In addition the reigstry announced that National Informatics Centre
(NIC) is the registrar for gov.in domains and ERNET is the registrar
for res.in, edu.in and ac.in domains. The .in domain space, which
was earlier restricted to third level domains only, will now allow
second level domain registrations.
.IN Touches 75,000 Registrations
21 February 2005
In a close watch on the recently launched '.IN' TLD, industry sources
claimed that the .IN Registry recorded in excess of 75,000 .IN domain
registrations, ever since the registry's launch in early January,
reaching almost half-way through to the target of achieving 200,000
registrations in 6 months. The Registry is also expected to add
12 to 18 registrars by the end of February to the Official .IN Registrar
list.
Amitabh Singhal, CEO of NIXI, stated that registrations which were
opened for the public from February 16 have been achieved by the
18 registrars accredited in the .IN registry. "We expect the
total number of accredited registrars for the .in domain names to
be about 35 by the end of February," he said.
Ram Mohan, chief operating officer and chief technical officer
of Afilias Inc, USA, which is a technical partner for NIXI, compared
the security system of the .in domains to .com and .net, and claimed
that the .in security systems were far better. "The .in registry
is protected from breakdowns," he stated.
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