Transcript PIR Board Presentation, May 14 2004

.IN
Relaunching and
Implementation
26 April 2005
Dr. Govind/ K.B. Narayanan
Department of Information Technology
Government of India
[email protected], [email protected]
Agenda
History
Goals of the re-launch
Process
Sunrise
Landrush
On-going operations
Learnings
Current challenges
.IN History – 1992-2004
Opened in 1992
Managed by National Centre for Software
Development (NCST), then by Centre for
Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
Restrictive eligibility requirements
Registry and Registrar functions combined in one
Manual and lengthy registration process
About 6600 names in the database (despite
population base of over 1B)
Low growth; not meeting potential
Goals of the re-launch
“10 point agenda” announced in May, 2004 by Union
Minister of Communications and IT : Dayanidhi
Maran
#5: “…bring about improvement in Indian Internet Domain
Name with a greater market focus…”
Number of .IN registrations should reflect the advance
of IT in India
Bring in policy changes to set up a liberal, market
friendly and state of the art Registry Services
Establish .IN as a major modern domain-a virtual
India on the Internet
Process & timetable
New .IN Internet Domain Name policy announced
during October, 2004
Afilias India selected as Technical partner on 20th
December,04
Key changes
2nd level domains available on an unlimited basis
3rd levels in co.in/net.in/org.in also opened to all registrants
Registry exits retail; separate registrar level created
Pricing to registrars reduced from Rs750(~$17.00) to:
2nd level: Rs. 500 (about US$11.00)
3rd level: Rs. 250 (about US$5.50)
Registrations taken online, and effective within 24
hours of application
A “Sunrise” to protect intellectual property
Dispute process adopted
A category of Reserved Names established
Registry retains authority to protect sovereign
interests and public order
Sunrise
1-21 January 2005
Indian trademarks only
Over 4200 Applications
received
Landrush
16 February 2005
Unlimited registrations open to the public
Real time-online access
18 Registrars accredited (.in, co.in, net.in, org.in,
gen.in, firm.in, ind.in)
Plus ERNET (res.in, edu.in, ac.in), NIC-National
Informatics Centre (gov.in), and Ministry of Defence (mil.in)
Aggressive marketing through PR agency
45,745 registrations in the first 24 hours
Steady demand since the initial rush
On going operations
Over 100,000 registrations
New registrars accredited regularly—now over 25
73% 2LDs / 27% 3LDs in post-landrush
.IN Growth—2005
100000
90000
80000
70000
60000
50000
40000
30000
20000
10000
0
Sunrise
Landrush
Current Challenges
Completing Sunrise domain names
IDN launches (18 official languages in India)
Hindi and Tamil to begin with
Building the local registrar base
Stimulating domain usage and subsequent
renewal
Questions?
Contact: Dr. Govind
[email protected]
www.registry.in