.in


.in is the Internet country code top-level domain for India.

Registry operator

The domain was originally managed by the National Centre for Software Technology and its Centre for Development of Advanced Computing. 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. The National Informatics Centre, 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.
In August 2018, NIXI appointed Neustar Data Infotech, 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.

Second-level domains

, liberalised policies for the domain allow unlimited second-level registrations under. Unlimited registrations under the previously structured existing zones are also allowed:
Zones reserved for use by qualified institutions in India:
Before the introduction of liberalised registration policies for the domain, only 7000 names had been registered between 1992 and 2004., the number had increased to over 610,000 domain names with 60% of registrations coming from India and the rest from overseas. By October 2011, the number had surpassed 1 million domain names., the number has more than doubled to over 2 million domain names.
The domain is reserved for India's National Informatics Centre, but in practice most Indian government agencies have domains ending in.

Restrictions on use of .in domains

As per the terms and conditions of the registry, domain privacy is not allowed.

Internationalised domain names and country codes

India plans to introduce internationalised domain names in the 22 local languages used in India., fifteen of these internationalised domain names were accepted by ICANN:
In 2016, an application for eight further domains were accepted. They are not yet available :
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