.in

.in is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for India . It was introduced on May 8, 1989 and is administered by the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI for short, about National Internet Exchange Point of India ), commonly referred to as INRegistry . The Indian subsidiary of Afilias is responsible for technical operations in 2005 . In September 2017, 1,809,893 domains were registered.

development

According to official information, around 6,000 to 7,000 .in domains were registered at the end of 2004. In order to give the top-level domain greater weight and to promote its distribution, INRegistry announced that it will largely liberalize the award criteria. From now on, the ending should be able to be used by everyone at home and abroad without any particular restrictions. In fact, this measure increased the number of .in domains to 75,000 in April 2005. In September 2005 it was 130,000, in November 2006 the mark of 200,000 domains was broken. At this point in time, 37 percent of all .in domains were registered to people outside of India, with the USA and Germany leading the way.

properties

The award criteria were last changed in January 2005. Since then, every natural or legal person has been allowed to register an .in domain without having to show a place of residence or a branch in India. The administrative contact person does not have to come from India either. After only third-level domains were previously registered, addresses on the second level have also been possible since then. The endings on the second level such as .co.in for companies or .edu.in for educational institutions were retained.

.In has been supporting so-called internationalized domain names since 2011 . The top-level domain itself is available in a total of seven variants, which cover all languages ​​recognized by the constitution of India . In total, an .in domain can be between three and 63 characters long. A special feature compared to other top-level domains is that the registry reserves the right to transfer a domain to another owner at any time, if the government of India so requests.

particularities

The domain dlgwe.in is used by the German Agricultural Society to refer to the test results (wine profile, origin, analysis), producer and purchase options on the label on the back of the wine bottle as a shortlink or QR code .

Web link

• INRegistry website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Delegation Record for .IN. IANA , accessed July 11, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: India drops domain barriers! In: domain-right. December 27, 2004, accessed on July 11, 2013 : “Technical administrator of the new liberalized .in domain will be Afilias India Pvt. Ltd., a 100 percent subsidiary of .info administrator Afilias. " 
3. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: .in exceeds all expectations. In: domain-right. April 8, 2005, accessed on July 11, 2013 : “The Indian top-level domain .in, which was liberalized in January 2005, exceeds all expectations: at the end of 2004 there were just 7,000 .in domains, in April 2005 there were already over 100,000 web addresses with Indian abbreviation. " 
4. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: News from .se, .in and .aero. In: domain-right. September 12, 2005, accessed on July 11, 2013 : "While there were around 7,000 domains at the beginning of 2005, the registration numbers have now climbed to over 130,000, according to the communications and IT ministry." 
5. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: .in reports 200,000th domain. In: domain-right. November 20, 2006, accessed on July 11, 2013 : "At the beginning of November, the official registry, the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), reported more than 200,000 web addresses with the ending .in for the first time." 
6. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: India - the .in domains are coming! In: domain-right. February 3, 2005, accessed on July 11, 2013 : “For the first time in the history of domains in India, the second level domains, which are particularly popular, will be available in the name.in format. In addition, there are other third level domains to choose from with .co.in, .net.in, .org.in and .firm.in. " 
7. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: News from .eg, .in and .my. February 15, 2011, accessed on July 11, 2013 : "India is planning a real IDN offensive: the Indian registry National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) received the green light from the Internet administration ICANN for seven spelling variants." 
8. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: News from .be, .in and .unicef. In: domain-right. August 10, 2010, accessed on July 11, 2013 : “A reader points out to us an unusual clause in the conditions for issuing Indian .in domains: Clause 12 of the" Terms and Conditions for Registrants "of the .IN registry does away with this the right to transfer registered domains at any time if the Indian government so requests. " 
9. ↑ Main page http://dlgwe.in/ is a redirect to http://www.dlg-weintest.de/ .