.IN Registrar.

March 2, 2005 10:24 AM

I am looking for a good/reputable domain registrar that can register .IN domains.

Currently, I use godaddy and have a .CN address through moniker. Most of the .IN registrars are located in India or some where in Asia. While I would prefer to have an American or European based registrar, I am considering using one of the few I have found. So, can anyone give me any suggestions or feedback about what registrars they have found and liked capable of .IN registration.

posted by chrisroberts to computers & internet (5 comments total)

I registered one via GoodLuckDomain.com because of their low price, but my experience thus far has been far from satisfactory. It's been half a month and I still have not been able to use my domain name.

I honestly can not recommend any single .IN registrar at this point in time. Good luck gambling with your money :)
posted by riffola at 10:31 AM on March 2, 2005

chrisroberts: There are many reasons why you're not finding a lot of Euro or American registrars in the .in space yet. It's a ccTLD, which are typically slow to be picked up. There is some debate on whether it will be a worthwhile proposition for many registrars and their resellers, etc.

INRegistry is the governing registry for the .in space. You should be able to find all the information you seek there. They are the end all and be all for that name space.

This is a list of all the currently accredited .in registrars. There are some reputable companies there. If you have trouble with any of them you can use all the standard means through ICANN and the registry itself to get your problems resolved. Of the ones listed there that are actually accepting registrations on their sites I've only dealt with one that I could possibly recommend, that would be DirectI. However, that was some time ago and not in reference to a .in, obviously. eNom is not a company I can recommend, nor are they actually accepting registrations at this time. Finally, stay far away from Sipence. They are the company going around and registering the .info extensions for all the domains they can get registrant information on. Not cool

Finally, the launch of a new domain space such as .in always starts with a Sunrise period which was the month of January 2005 for .in. It was not opened to the public until February 16, 2005. Here is a PDF that explains the Sunrise rules for .in.
posted by FlamingBore at 11:14 AM on March 2, 2005

A friend recommended net4domains, based out of Bombay. He prefers them after using two other big registrars. Email support is a bit slow, but overall he seemed to have had a good experience.
posted by wannabehippie at 4:17 PM on March 2, 2005

No, no, don't go with net4domains.

At the moment, I recommend holding off on registering an .IN domain (I speak as an Indian.) There just aren't enough competent people doing it.

This is from a posting from a friend on a major tech mailing list in India (their archives link isn't work or I'd have linked it). Apparently, he had trouble paying with his credit card:

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"I spoke to Net4India on the phone, and they suggested that I pay by cash at their office, which I did the next day (2005-02-15). I was told that the registration would be processed the next day (16th, which is when registrations were supposed to open to the public).


I discovered today that the domain had not yet been registered. I called them up, and they gave me the run around. As it turned out, not only had the domain not been registered, the registration order hadn't even been processed. It took me five minutes to register the domain with a German registrar (key-systems.net).


I should have known that any company with a "4" in its name could be relied upon to be frighteningly incompetent."

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posted by madman at 9:08 PM on March 2, 2005

OK, here's the thread.
posted by madman at 12:00 AM on March 3, 2005