.in

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.[4][5]

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.[6]

As of 2005, liberalised policies for the .in domain allow unlimited second-level registrations under .in. Unlimited registrations under the previously structured existing zones are also allowed:[7]

• .in (available to anyone; used by companies, individuals, and organisations in India)
• .co.in (intended for banks, registered companies, and trademarks)
• .com.in (available to anyone; used by companies, individuals, and organisations in India)
• .firm.in (intended for shops, partnerships, liaison offices, sole proprietorships)
• .net.in (intended for Internet service providers)
• .org.in (intended for nonprofit organisations)
• .gen.in (intended for general/miscellaneous use)
• .ind.in (intended for individuals)

Zones reserved for use by qualified institutions in India:[7]

• .ernet.in (Older, for both educational and research institutes)[8][9]
• .ac.in (Academic institutions)
• .edu.in (Educational institutions)
• .res.in (Indian research institutes)
• .gov.in (Indian government)
• .mil.in (Indian military organisations)

The domain .nic.in is reserved for India's National Informatics Centre, but in practice most Indian government agencies have domains ending in .nic.in.

The .in registry launched following sub-domains on Oct 29, 2021 to benefit the growing market:[10]

• .5g.in
• .6g.in
• .ai.in
• .am.in
• .bihar.in
• .biz.in
• .business.in
• .ca.in
• .cn.in
• .com.in
• .coop.in
• .cs.in
• .delhi.in
• .dr.in
• .er.in
• .gujarat.in
• .info.in
• .int.in
• .internet.in
• .io.in
• .me.in
• .pg.in
• .post.in
• .pro.in
• .travel.in
• .tv.in
• .uk.in
• .up.in
• .us.in

Before the introduction of liberalised registration policies for the .in domain, only 7000 names had been registered between 1992 and 2004. As of March 2010, the number had increased to over 610,000 domain names with 60% of registrations coming from India and the rest from overseas.[11] By October 2011, the number had surpassed 1 million domain names.[12] As of March 2016, the number has more than doubled to over 2 million domain names.[13]

As per the terms and conditions of the .in registry, domain privacy is not allowed.[14]

Effective from December 27, 2021, bulk domain registrations, with individuals registrant registering for more than 2 or an entity registering for more than 100 .in domains are required to seek prior approval from the CEO of National Internet Exchange of India.[15][16]

Despite these restrictions, Neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer, which struggles to find reliable web hosting due to its anti-Semitic content can be accessed at dailystormer.in since October 2022.[17]

India plans to introduce internationalised domain names in the 22 local languages used in India. As of October 2016, fifteen of these internationalised domain names were accepted by ICANN:

• .भारत (Devanagari), became available with the following zones:[18]

Devanagari string	Transliterated string
भारत	.bharat
कंपनी.भारत	company.bharat
विद्या.भारत	vidya.bharat
सरकार.भारत	sarkar.bharat

• .ভারত (Bengali), available as of 2017
• .ਭਾਰਤ (Gurmukhī), only ਡਾਟਾਮੇਲ.ਭਾਰਤ as of August 2017
• .ભારત (Gujarati), available as of 2017
• .இந்தியா (Tamil), available as of 2015
• .భారత్ (Telugu), available as of 2017
• .بھارت (Urdu) only ڈاٹامیل.بھارت as of August 2017 (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, the Bangladesh Telecommunication Company. They were not available (as of October 2016):[19] But, they were later on made available and now are open for domain registration in India.

• .ಭಾರತ (Kannada)
• .ভাৰত (Assamese)
• بارت. (Kashmiri)
• .ഭാരതം (Malayalam)
• .ଭାରତ (Odia)
• .भारतम् (Sanskrit)
• .भारोत (Santali)
• ڀارت. (Sindhi)

• Country code top-level domain
• Internet in India

• IANA Whois information
• whois information
• Policies from the INRegistry website
• List of Accredited registrars for .in