One may remember, ICANN had approved the usage of world’s scripts & confirmed that domain names will longer be restricted to Latin alphabets in 2009. Some of the languages approved were Hindi, Tamil, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Cyrillic & others.
India is preparing to launch the dot-Bharat domain name in Hindi in May with the aim of bridging the digital divide in the country. The move will enable organizations and individuals to register their website addresses in Hindi—and later more local languages—making them more accessible to a large proportion of Indians who aren’t familiar with English.
However, this move of adding a .bharat extension (as against .com, .net, .org) seems to be to appease the “Indian” within us.
The government will 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.
About 11% of the country’s population understands English, while 40% is well-versed in some form of Hindi, according to Census 2001.
Further, China, Russia, Japan, (South) Korea have long been enjoying this privilege. So why not India? Well, this is a welcome sign, but, there are cautionary voices heard all over. Manish Dalal, VP (Asia Pacific) at VeriSign Naming Services, the largest registrar of domain names globally, says, “Making the domain name available in local languages won’t be enough. The operating system, browser, domain name and the content, everything from start to finish has to be completely in the local language to really break the entry barrier,”
India is preparing to launch the dot-Bharat domain name in Hindi in May with the aim of bridging the digital divide in the country. The move will enable organizations and individuals to register their website addresses in Hindi—and later more local languages—making them more accessible to a large proportion of Indians who aren’t familiar with English.
However, this move of adding a .bharat extension (as against .com, .net, .org) seems to be to appease the “Indian” within us.
The government will 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.
About 11% of the country’s population understands English, while 40% is well-versed in some form of Hindi, according to Census 2001.
Further, China, Russia, Japan, (South) Korea have long been enjoying this privilege. So why not India? Well, this is a welcome sign, but, there are cautionary voices heard all over. Manish Dalal, VP (Asia Pacific) at VeriSign Naming Services, the largest registrar of domain names globally, says, “Making the domain name available in local languages won’t be enough. The operating system, browser, domain name and the content, everything from start to finish has to be completely in the local language to really break the entry barrier,”
.in was already there......this would add up to confusion......
ReplyDeleteDear Mr. Jindal .in represents India , whereas hindi domian names signifies that you can have your domian name in Hindi and Regional languages.
ReplyDeleteSuch as .bharat, .hindustan
Great articles what is benefit of using Hindi Domain Names Domain register
ReplyDeleteI think this would have greater effect on the Indian domain names..And it is good progress..Thanks for sharing this information..
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