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Five million Indian government workers to get IDN email

Kevin Murphy, August 30, 2017, 08:13:10 (UTC), Domain Registries

The Indian government has announced plans to issue fully Hindi-script email addresses to some five million civil servants.
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology announced the move, which will see each government employee given an @सरकार.भारत email address, in a statement this week.
सरकार.भारत transliterates as “sarkar.bharat”, or “government.india”.
The first stage of the roll-out will see the five million employees given @gov.in addresses, which apparently most of them do not already have.
Expanding the use of local scripts seems to be a secondary motivator to the government’s desire to bring control of government employee email back within its borders in a centralized fashion.
“The primary trigger behind the policy was Government data which resides on servers outside India and on servers beyond the control of the Government of India,” the MEITY press release states.
India currently has the largest number of internationalized domain names, at the top level, of any country.
NIXI, the local ccTLD manager, is in control of no fewer than 16 different ccTLDs in various scripts, with ample room for possible expansion in future.
The registry has been offering free IDN domains alongside .in registrations for about a year, according to local reports.
There are about two million .in domains registered today, according to the NIXI web site.


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Comments (3)

  1. Samit says:

    Hindi is the language Kevin.
    Hindu is usually used to denote followers of the Sanatan Dharma or Hinduism.

  2. Ajay Data says:

    Govt. Of Rajasthan already implemented IDN domain राजस्थान.भारत and allowed citizens to create FREE email address .

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