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The Registration services for the ‘.in’ domain commenced from first day of this year, with the ‘sunrise period’ which will extend upto 21st of this month. All registered companies and registered trademark owners are given time during this period, technically known as the sunrise applicants, to select their addresses in their names, after which a silent period will prevail. As on 14th January, a total number of 350 applications for domain name registrations have been received by the Registrars. From February 16, 2005 open-registration will start for the General Public. However, those entering for registration after the stipulated period of 15th February will have to choose from the ‘left-over’ names only.
For the purpose of registration, at present, there are six Accredited Registrars for ‘.in’ Registry, namely, Directi, Net4India, Good Luck Domains Pvt. Ltd., OnlineNIC, Inc., SGS Technologies, and Sify. In addition to this, ERNET India is operating as a Registrar for Academic & Research Institutions covering the domains, ‘edu.in’, ‘ac.in’ and ‘res.in’ while National Informatic Centre (NIC) serves as the designated registrar for Government organisations under the domain name ‘.gov.in’ The Government will be appointing more number of Registrars as this will be an open and continuous process.
RM/AMA - 180105 Dot in domain registrants
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