Dot-Bharat Domain to Come Soon

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

India is soon believed to introduce the dot-Bharat domain name in Hindi in May. The move is said to enable organizations and individuals to register their website addresses in Hindi and later in more local languages.

In June, the country received approval to register domain names in seven Indian languages from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which governs domain names internationally. These are Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Urdu, Tamil, Telugu and Gujarati. The government is expecting the first set of applications to come from Political Organizations, Hindi-language News Media, Entertainment Companies and Consumer-Focused Firms when it opens the application process for dot-Bharat next year.

When the remaining IDNs are opened up, it is said to be register websites with extensions such as dot-Hindostan (in Urdu) and dot-Indiya (in Tamil). The government is to give trademark holders first rights on a dot-Bharat domain name to prevent cybersquatting. Such registrations will begin in March before being opened up for everyone else two months after that.People currently have the option of getting content in local languages, but still have to type the URL in English. The government, which is rolling out various citizen-specific e-governance initiatives, sees local language IDNs as a way of making them more accessible. In another move that could have a wide impact, Icann will allow any word to be registered as a domain name extension, or generic top-level domain. These are currently confined to a handful of extensions such as dot-com, dot-org and dot-net.

Once in place, this claims that domain extensions won't be restricted to just dot-Bharat and that any word or name can be registered in the native language as a website address.


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