.भारत
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| Introduced | 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
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| Actual use | Was not very popular as Indians preferred generic TLDs such as .com; liberalisation of registration rules in 2005 led to a great increase in registrations, including overseas registrations. |
| Registration restrictions | No restrictions on who can register second-level domains or most third-level domains; restrictions under some specialised subdomains |
| Structure | May register at second level or at third level beneath generic-category 2nd level domains |
| Documents | Policies |
| Dispute policies | .IN Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (INDRP) |
| Website | registry.in |
| DNSSEC | Yes |
Logo for .भारत, launched on 27 Aug 2014
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| Introduced | 2015 |
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| TLD type | Internationalised country code top-level domain |
| Status | Active |
| TLD type | Internationalised country code top-level domain |
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| Status | Active |
| Registry | registry.in |
| Registration restrictions | No restrictions on who can register second-level domains or most third-level domains; restrictions under some specialised subdomains; should comply with certain Tamil phonological rules. |
.in is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for India. The domain is operated by INRegistry under the authority of NIXI, the National Internet Exchange of India. INRegistry was appointed by the government of India.
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:
Six zones are reserved for use by qualified institutions in India:
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, 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. As of March 2016 the number has more than doubled to over 2 million domain names.
The domain .nic.in is reserved for India's National Informatics Centre, but in practice most Indian government agencies have domains ending in .nic.in.
India plans to introduce internationalised domain names, that is domain names in 22 local languages used in India. These internationalised domain names will be used together with fifteen new top domains for India.
These top domains are:
The rest are yet not available (as of October 2016):
In 2016 an application for eight further domains were accepted. They are not yet available (as of October 2016):
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