.in domains
Communications and IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran has -as Hindustan
Times reports-some advice for Indian patriots: use in-domains
for Websites and e-mail IDs to popularise Indian identity in the
world.
With India emerging as a global "labor" for IT, Indian companies
should change the domain names of their Websites and e-mail IDs
to in-domains, just like other countries.
"In every part of the world, the practice has been to use the
short form of the respective countries at the end of the domain
names by companies and individuals," the minister said during
his first speech as IT Minister.
"During my trips abroad, I have always noticed that people have
their e-mail IDs with the initials of their country in the end.
For instance, in Britain, the Websites or e-mail IDs have at the
end .co.uk, in Singapore it is .co.sg, in Japan it is .jp, in
Hong Kong it is .hk and even in Pakistan they have .co.pk. But
in India, we are still reluctant to use .co.in or .in. Why this
hesitation?", Dayanidhi Maran has asked in an interview.
Therefore the minister has been urging upon Indian captains of
industry, heads of organisations and individuals to switch over
to use in-domains in order to indicate that their website or
e-mail ID originates from India.
"I have made this appeal to representatives of the IT industry
here, which is considered the IT capital of India. Once the tech
industry migrates to this new identity, it will set a trend for
the rest to follow in letter and spirit. They need to change the
domain names of their companies or organisations by registering
their Websites or mail IDs only once for identifying themselves
with their motherland," Maran says.
"Though we are not making it mandatory, we are coming out with a
number of schemes for Indian companies or organisations to make
this transition soon. The ministry will shortly come out with an
action plan to enable a smooth migration to either .co.in or
.in," the IT minister explains.
The Indian IT-minister seems to be aware, that it is very
bureaucratic in the moment to register in-domains. Indian
companies need a lot of paperwork in order to get a domain at
co.in , .in itself is reserved for Indian providers, not open to
all Indian companies. "Foreign companies", explains Hans-Peter
Oswald, the CEO of ICANN Registrar Secura
(https://www.domainregistry.de/in-domain.html), ,,can only
register the own name at .gen.in."
Hans Peter Oswald
www.domainregistry.de
About the author:
CEO ICANN accredited registrar Secura http://www.com-domains.com
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