Equal partners shall have equal voice at multinational forum: Nixi’s Anil Jain

The National Internet Exchange of India (Nixi) is planning to initiate a number of awareness programs to promote domain names in regional languages and localised Internet content, and believes that stakeholders at a global forum should have equal voice. In an interaction with ETTelecom’s Muntazir Abbas, Nixi chief executive Anil Jain talks about .in registry, .bharat domain, data centres, and adoption of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), and revenue growth. Edited excerpts.

Tell us something about your initiative, especially the .in registry?

The domain is a part of the URL or the address which actually takes you from one device to another device. It is basically a sort of address, which is there. So basically I can divide domains into categories. Mainly two categories. One is the GTLD. This is called generic top level domains, and another is called CCTLDs. If we wanted a domain in the local language, then we call IDNTLD.
IDNTLD. This is called internationalized domain name top level domain. So we have like .bharat as a domain which is under IDNTLD. We are the only country in the world. which has IDNTLD in 15 scripts, and 22 languages.