National Internet Exchange of India
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Why in News ?
National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) celebrated its 18th Foundation Day. For the last 18 years, NIXI has been contributing to Indian Internet Ecosystem.
Key Facts
- NIXI the first Internet Exchange of the country facilitate peering of ISPs among themselves for the purpose of routing the domestic traffic within the country instead of taking it all the way to US/Abroad.
- It resulting in a better quality of service and reduced bandwidth charges for ISPs by saving international currency on International Bandwidth.
Photo by Leon Seibert on Unsplash - NIXI is also the IN Registry managing India’s country code top level domain (ccTLD) – .IN.
- NIXI also manages the National Internet Registry of the country delegating Internet Protocol addresses (IPv4 and IPv6) and Autonomous System numbers to the Indian Affiliates.
- Personalized e-mail Launch
- NIXI will provide a personalized e-mail with 10GB space to every .IN user.
- This e-mail will be available on demand.
- A user may approach NIXI website to get a free personalized e-mail.
- This is perhaps a unique offer by any ccTLD in the world.
National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI)
- About NIXI
- Not for profit Organization under section 8 of the Companies Act 2013
- It was registered on 19th June, 2003.
- NIXI is managed and operated on a Neutral basis, in line with the best practices for such initiatives globally.
- Indian Registry for Internet Names and Numbers (IRINN) managing and operating Internet protocol (IPv4/IPv6).
- What is the aim of NIXI ?
- To Promote Internet through effective and efficient routing, peering, transit and exchange of the Internet traffic within India.
- To Set up Internet Domain Name Operations and related activities..
- NIXI is also credited with localizing internet domains and encouraging websites to register with the .in address.
- Impact of NIXI
- Its efforts have seen fruition as India surpassed 2.7 million registrations of .in domain.
- It make India the third-largest nation in Asia in the country-centric, top-level domain growth.
- NIXI have .IN Registry, managing and operation of .IN country code domain.
- Further the company has also set out to promote local content with its .भारत(Bharath) initiatives.
- The .भारत domain is now available in all 22 official languages.
- India is the only country to provide domain in 22 official Indian Languages.
Indian Registry for Internet Names and Numbers (IRINN)
- It provides allocation and registration services of IP addresses and AS numbers.
- IRINN is a division functioning under NIXI and provides allocation and registration services of Internet Protocol addresses (IPv4 & IPv6) and Autonomous System numbers to its Affiliates .
- It is a not-for-profit, Affiliates based entity with the primary goal of allocation of Internet resources to its Affiliates.
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