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...