IRINN Conducts Regular Audits to Ensure Compliance with APNIC Policies
The Indian Registry for Internet Names and Numbers (IRINN), the National Internet Registry (NIR) for India today announced the result of an audit to ensure compliance with the APNIC Number Resource policies in allocating IP addresses to all entities/Applicants who fulfill the criteria of an independent block. IRINN and APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) jointly investigated an anonymous information about suspicious allocations. IRINN promptly launched the investigation. During the scrutiny and regular audit, it was discovered that some Affiliates had the same postal address and contact information. Once this was discovered, NIXI investigated additional information given by these Affiliates at the time of allocation.
India registers 2.5 million .in domain names: NIXI chief
India has surpassed 2.5 million localised domain .in registrations to become Asia's second-largest nation in the country-specific top-level domain uptake, according to the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI).
"I am happy to inform you that we have already crossed a major milestone of 2.5 million," NIXI chief executive Anil Kumar Jain told ETTelecom, and added that India has the highest adoption of localised domain names after China, and expects to become the top country across the region soon.
NIXI unveils three new initiatives to create awareness about IPv6
New Delhi: The National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) has unveiled three new initiatives, including NIXI Academy, to educate technical and non-technical people about technologies such as IPv6.
The three initiatives around the next-generation Internet Protocol standard IPv6, including IP Guru and NIXI-IP-INDEX, were inaugurated by IT Secretary Ajay Prakash Sawhney, according to a statement.
