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India registers 2.5 million .in domain names: NIXI chief
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Delhi-based Nixi acts as an autonomous body for the maintenance of .in domain, and facilitates the exchange of domestic Internet traffic under the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY).
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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.
Breaking: ICANN terminates Net 4 India domain registrar accreditation agreement
February 27, 2021
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has terminated the delinquent domain registrar Net 4 India’s registrar accreditation agreement (RAA), it announced on Friday. This means the rights to manage domains registered by the company will be transferred to another provider in accordance with ICANN’s De-Accredited Registrar Transition Procedure. This is likely to come as a relief for Net 4 customers who have been unable to renew their domains or have payments processed.
The termination follows months of complaints from customers who have been unable to transfer their domains or process payments for renewals. The company has been embroiled in bankruptcy proceedings, and over the last couple years, ICANN has been working on processing complaints by liaising with a tribunal-appointed resolution professional, not a representative of Net 4 itself. The company’s c
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“Neither am I right-wing or left-wing, nor is my technology or product,” Aprameya Radhakrishna, co-founder and chief executive of the Koo app, said, terming the labels as basically “a lot of people’s perception”.
“As a company, we don’t want to be political, we are a private company interested in technology and product,” said the 39-year-old, whose first outing as a startup entrepreneur was when he set up mobility app TaxiForSure, before selling it to rival Ola.
“We are actually going after 600 million people who have internet access today (but) don’t have a place to share thoughts and opinions,” Radhakrishna said.
Koo app downloads surge as tensions escalate between Twitter and Govt
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In the last seven days alone, Twitter s homegrown rival Koo app has seen a ten-fold increase in downloads leading to a cumulative three million lifetime downloads in India alone.
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Indian microblogging app Koo is witnessing a record surge in its popularity as tensions escalate between larger rival Twitter and the Indian government on allegations that certain accounts on the American platform were stoking unrest over the controversial farm laws.
In the last seven days alone, the year-old app has seen a ten-fold increase in downloads leading to a cumulative three million lifetime downloads within the country alone, it said. Founded by serial entrepreneur Aprameya Radhakrishna who sold his earlier venture TaxiforSure to larger rival Ola along with Mayank Bidawatka, Koo has been making waves for its focus on snagging local language users onto its platform.