.भारत (.Bharat) Will Soon Launch As The IDN Counterpart Of The ccTLD .IN

afiliasAfilias.info did a blog post on .भारत (.Bharat), which means India in the Hindi language that was inaugurated on August 27 in New Delhi by Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad, India’s Minister of Law & Justice and Communications & Information Technology.

“The Minister heralded the start of a new “Digital India” — one that promises to grow e-commerce from around $14 billion in 2014 to $150 billion in 2019.”

“Written in the Devanagari script, .भारत is the Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) counterpart for the country code “.IN,” the English-language representation of India on the Internet. .भारत has been among the most anticipated innovations in the development of India’s Internet sector. With more than 22 official languages, the launch of this top level domain begins to fulfill users’ desire to communicate in their native language and create memorable addresses in the .भारत name. This will soon be followed by the introduction of the Indian ccTLD in six other Indian scripts.”

“As the trusted technical service provider for the Government of India for .IN since 2005, Afilias joined forces with the Indian linguistic and technical community to build an innovative capability to handle names in Devanagari script, while taking into consideration the complexities of delivering services in a script that is used by more than one language. This collaboration began many years ago, when Afilias worked closely with NIXI and ICANN to help India secure its country code domains in ICANN’s ccTLD fast track process. Teaming up with India’s Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and the multilingual community over several years contributed to the successful and smooth launch.”

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About Konstantinos Zournas

I studied Computer Engineering and Computer Science in London, UK and I am now living in Athens, Greece. I went online in 1995, started coding in 1996 and began buying domain names and creating websites in 2000. I started the OnlineDomain.com blog in 2012.

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