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
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.
From August 2012 to February 2019, the registry was managed under contract by Afilias India Pvt. Ltd, asubsidiary ofAfilias.
In August 2018, NIXI appointed Neustar Data Infotech (India), asubsidiary ofNeustar, 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]
in February 2025,Tucows announced it won the contract to run the backend registry services for India’s .in country code domain. The company is migrating about 4 million .in domains to its platform.
As of 2005[update], 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)
.fin.in (used by Indian Financial and other Non-Banking Financial Institutions (NBFCs))
The domain.nic.in is reserved for India'sNational 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[update], 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[update], 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]
Recently updated EKYC guidelines were issued to all registrars to authenticate new registrants. Hence, the previous rule relating to bulk booking of .in domain names has been withdrawn. Now customers can book unlimited .in domain names as previously in line with promoting .in TLD on par with other popular TLDs like .com and others which also has no restrictions relating to bulk booking.[15]
India plans to introduceinternationalised domain names in the 22 local languages used in the country. As of October 2016[update], fifteen of these internationalised domain names were accepted byICANN:
.भारत (Devanagari), became available with the following zones:[16]
.بھارت (Urdu) only ڈاٹامیل.بھارت as of August 2017[update] (mainly right-to-left character order)
In 2016, an application for eight further domains was accepted. While the Indian government also applied for.বাংলা (Bengali), it was given to a competing applicant, theBangladesh Telecommunication Company Limited (BTCL).These domains were not available (as of October 2016[update]):[17] But, they were later on made available and now are open for domain registration in India.
