Introduced | 8 May 1989 |
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TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
Status | Active |
Registry | INRegistry |
Sponsor | National Internet Exchange of India |
Intended use | Entities connected with India |
Actual use | Very popular in India. Liberalisation of registration rules in 2005 led to a large increase in registrations including overseas registrations. |
Registered domains | 3 million+ (May 2022)[1][2] |
Registration restrictions | No restrictions on who can register second-level domains or most third-level domains; various specific restrictions under some of those specialised subdomains. |
Structure | May register at the second level or at the third level beneath generic-category 2nd-level domains |
Documents | Policies |
Dispute policies | .IN Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (INDRP) |
DNSSEC | Yes |
Registry website | registry.in |
Introduced | 5 February 2011[3] |
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TLD type | Internationalised (Devanagari) country code top-level domain |
Status | Active |
Registry | INRegistry |
Sponsor | National Internet Exchange of India |
Intended use | Entities connected with India |
Actual use | Getting popular in India. |
Registration restrictions | Devanagari script. Also comply with certain Devanagari Phonological rules; restrictions under some specialized subdomains like सरकार.भारत (≈ gov.in) and विद्या.भारत (≈ edu.in) |
Structure | May register at the second level or at the third level beneath generic-category 2nd-level domains. |
DNS name | xn--h2brj9c |
DNSSEC | Yes |
Registry website | रजिस्ट्री.भारत (registry.bharat) |
.in is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for India. It was introduced in May 1989. It is currently administered by the National Internet Exchange of India.