New Delhi: India, with its existing 243 million Internet users, has now got its own .???? (.Bharat) country code top-level domain (ccTLD) name. The launch of the .???? ccTLD will help bridge the digital divide and accelerate e-governance.
This was announced by the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI). ?????????.???? is one of the first such domains.
NIXI has been spearheading the goal of multilingual Internet and to this end NIXI has collaborated with Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) in setting up of an expert team on Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs).This is expected to enhance the reach and relevance of Internet for remote and far flung villages, further bridging the digital divide.
Since the same .???? ccTLD is shared by other Indian languages such as Boro, Dogri, Konkani, Maithili, Marathi, Nepali and Sindhi-Devanagari, the end user can now get domain names in these languages apart from Hindi. The sunrise period for the same has commenced from August 15, 2014.
This is soon to be followed in the coming months by similar launches in regional languages such as Tamil, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu, Telugu and Bangala.
