Indian languages will get their 'domain'

From 27^th August 2014, Indian domain names will make their debut with the extension .Bharat which will be in Devanagari script.

Indian languages will finally get their due in the web world.

This .Bharat in Devanagari script will come to service on the World Domain Day 2014.

NIXI (National Internet Exchange of India) announced this initiative.

The main intention of this initiative is step towards a multi-lingual Internet to connect people in every corner of the country.

The domain names ending with .Bharat in Devanagri script cover Indian languages like Boro, Hindi, Dogri, Konkani, Maithalai, Marathi, Nepali and Sindhi.

For example, gktimes.bharat will be in all above languages.

Soon it will be followed by domain names in other languages including Bengali, Telugu, Gujarati, Urdu, Tamil and Punjabi.

NIXI is also working towards promoting Internet in rural areas as internet governance is coming up in a big way.

About National Internet Exchange of India

The National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) is a government non-profit company established in 2003. It was established to provide neutral Internet Exchange Point services in India.

It was established under section 25 of the Companies Act 1956, with the Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI) to become the operational meeting point of Internet service providers (ISPs) in India.

Main functions of NIXI are:

·         To facilitate the handing over of domestic Internet traffic between the peering ISP members, rather than using servers in the United States or elsewhere.

·         By using domestic servers it enables more efficient use of international bandwidth and saves foreign exchange.

·         It also improves the Quality of Services (QoS) for the customers of member ISPs, by being able to avoid multiple international hops and thus lowering delays.

·         Utilising servers routed through, and administered by India also reduces the chances of Indian data being intercepted unlawfully by the NSA and the GCHQ.

NIXI is managed and operated on a Neutral basis, in line with the best practices for such initiatives globally.

NIXI currently has seven operational NOC located in   

1. Delhi (Noida), 
2. Mumbai (Vashi), 
3. Chennai, 
4. Kolkata, 
5. Bangalore, 
6. Hyderabad, 
7. Ahmedabad.

Since 2005, NIXI has also created IN Registry (.IN domain) as its autonomous body for maintenance of .IN domain.

Since December 2012, NIXI is also manages the National Internet Registry of the country delegation Internet Protocol addresses (IPv4 and IPv6) and Autonomous System numbers to its Affiliates.