{"id":76308,"date":"2021-01-11T18:14:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T12:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=76308"},"modified":"2021-03-01T15:10:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T09:40:49","slug":"nixi-offers-free-domain-in-local-indian-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nixi-offers-free-domain-in-local-indian-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"NIXI Offers free Domain in Local Indian Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) has announced that it will offer a free IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) in any of their preferred 22 official Indian languages along with every IN domain booked by the registrar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NIXI: <\/strong>It is a not for profit Organization established under section 8 of the Companies Act 2013 in 2003.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose: <\/strong>It was set up for peering of ISPs among themselves for the purpose of routing the domestic traffic within the country, instead of taking it all the way to US\/Abroad thereby resulting in better quality of service (reduced latency) and reduced bandwidth charges.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objectives:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>To promote the Internet.<\/li>\n<li>To set up, when needed, in select location(s)\/parts\/regions of India Internet Exchanges\/Peering Points.<\/li>\n<li>To enable effective and efficient routing, peering, transit and exchange of the Internet traffic within India.<\/li>\n<li>To continuously work for enhancing and improving the quality of Internet and Broadband services.<\/li>\n<li>Set up. Internet Domain Name Operations and related activities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Managed by: <\/strong>NIXI is managed and operated on a Neutral basis, in line with the best practices for such initiatives globally.<\/li>\n<li><strong>India\u2019s Country Code: \u201c.IN\u201d<\/strong> is India\u2019s Country Code Top Level domain (ccTLD).The Govt. of India delegated the operations of INRegistry to NIXI in 2004.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1687055\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Article Source<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) has announced that it will offer a free IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) in any of their preferred 22 official Indian languages along with every IN domain booked by the registrar. Facts: NIXI: It is a not for profit Organization established under section 8 of the Companies Act&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nixi-offers-free-domain-in-local-indian-languages\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NIXI Offers free Domain in Local Indian Languages<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":76320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,7965,9],"tags":[1280,1428,1294],"class_list":["post-76308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-po_4","tag-st_2","tag-soty_2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NIXI-Offers-free-Domain-in-Local-Indian-Languages.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","views":{"total":31,"cached_at":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}