India’s DNS Industry: Innovation & Opportunities in the gTLD Marketplace

Resellers Club Hosting Summit

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One World, One Internet

+No one person, company, organization or government runs the Internet.

+ Instead, all of these engage in open debate to set policies and standards and create services and operations.

+ ICANN coordinates unique identifiers that enable computers to find one another.

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ICANN’s Role in Domain Name Registrations

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+ Out of 1,000 ICANN accredited registrars globally, 21 are in India

+ More than the entire continent of Africa, which has 5 ICANN accredited registrars but less than China, which has 44.

+ Benefits of accreditation include obtaining domain names directly from the registry, which may result in lower costs

ICANN Accredited Registrars in India

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+ Likely to have second largest user base in the world.

+ Room to grow – only 35% of businesses offer online services.

+ Internet adoption led by young people on mobile devices.

India is poised for Internet boom

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Challenges to Internet growth in India

Improving Internet infrastucture

Lowering cost of access and use

Raising digital literacy

Broader range of apps and services

Improving business environment

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+ Language barriers are being eased through more localized content and internationalized domain names.

+ Today, not one Indian language is among top ten on Internet. But just wait!

+ Next wave of Indian adoption of Internet will be in local languages.

Content in local languages will be key competitive advantage

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+An initiative that will enable the introduction of unlimited generic top-level domain names or extensions (both ASCII and IDN) into the domain name space

+Managed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

What is the New gTLD Program?

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+ ICANN launched New gTLD Program to promote competition, innovation and consumer choice in domain name space.

+ New gTLDs could enable organizations to create stronger ties to their community or brand.

New gTLD Program

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+ .COM+ .NET+ .ORG

Applied-for New gTLDs in Hindi

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+ INFIBEAM Incorporation (.OOO)+ “Dedicated online platform extension of

BuildaBazaar.com for retailers to market goods and services.”

+DotPing Inc. (.PING)+ “New namespace for Internet users of the

world.”

“Generic” new gTLD applications that passed Initial Evaluation

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+ Bharti Airtel Limited (.AIRTEL)+ Bharti Enterprises (.BHARTI)+ Dabur India Limited (.DABUR)+ Housing Development Finance Corporation (.HDFC)+ HDFC Bank (.HDFCBANK)+ Reliance Industries Limited (.INDIANS, .RELIANCE, .RIL)+ Infosys Limited (.INFOSYS and .INFY)+ Lupin Limited (.LUPIN)+ State Bank of India (.SBI and .STATEBANK)+ Shriram Capital Limited (.SHRIRAM)+ Star India Private Limited (.STAR)+ Tata Motors Limited (.TATAMOTORS)+ TV Sundram Iyengar & Sons (.TVS)

“Brand” new gTLD applications that passed initial evaluation

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A New Season at ICANN

+ ICANN goes to the world, rather than have the world come to it.

+Renewed focus on internationalization, operational excellence.

+Evolving the multistakeholder model.

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+Many ways to become more involved in ICANN

+ Board members

+ Community participants

+ Through Governmental Advisory Committee

+ Working for ICANN

+ Working groups

+ L Root nodes

Get Involved

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Internet Society Vasudhay Kutumbhkum (ISVK)- India

Indian At-Large Structures within ICANN

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+ India is poised for exponential Internet growth

+ ICANN has many exciting initiatives such as the New gTLD Program and Internationalized Domain Names. Join us in shaping the future of the Internet as:

+ Board members

+ Community participants

+ Through Governmental Advisory Committee

+ Working for ICANN

Summary

Thank You & Questions?