National Internet Exchange of India 4.63

NIXI is a not for profit organization set up under section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956 (now section 8 under Companies Act, 2013) for peering of ISPs among themselves and routing the domestic traffic within the country. The initial funding towards infrastructure was from Department of Information Technology. NIXI is performing the following three activities.
• Internet Exchange
• .IN Registry and Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs)
• National Internet Registry (NIR)


Internet Exchange: Seven Internet Exchange Nodes are functional at Delhi (Noida), Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and Ahmedabad. The Internet Exchange nodes have ensured peering of ISPs among themselves for routing domestic Internet traffic within India, resulting in better quality of service (reduced latency, reduced bandwidth charges for ISPs) saving on international bandwidth. Presently, 50 ISPs with 110 connections are connected with the various nodes of NIXI. The aggregated maximum traffic exchanged at all the nodes is 67 Gbps in the first week of September 2016.

.IN Registry: .IN Registry functions with primary responsibility for managing Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs). Registration of .IN domain has crossed the 2.16 million mark in October, 2016. Presently, 117 Registrars have been accredited to offer .IN domain name registration worldwide to customers. It has helped in proliferation of web hosting and promotion of Internet usage in the country. The .in domain name creates and builds a distinct Indian identity for brands, companies and individuals in the cyberspace.

.Bharat IDN in Indian languages:
.भारत domain name in Devenagari script was successfully launched on 27th August 2014 covering Hindi, Dogri, Konkani, Maithili, Marathi, Nepali and Sindhi language to increase the penetration of the Internet through the use of local languages and help penetrate local content.

The availability of .bharat IDN in Gujarati, Bengali, Manipuri in Bengali script, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu & Urdu languages started from 3rd August, 2015.

NIXI has sent an application to Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for delegation of all the remaining Indian languages i.e. Assamese, Kannada, Oriya, Malayalam, Santali, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Kashmiri.

National Internet Registry (NIR): Coordinates Internet Protocol address space (both IPv4 & IPv6) allocations and other Internet resource management functions at a national level with in the country. Earlier NIR was recognized by APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) which is a Regional Internet Registry

Since its launch in 2012, NIR has registered impressive growth and the number of affiliates registered till date is 2007 which is increasing day by day.