NIXI proposes new regulations to keep a check on fraudulent websites
By MYBRANDBOOK
In a bid to control fraudulent websites with .in domain name, the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) in January has come up with a new regulation. Individuals now have a limit of up to two websites, after which they would need permission from NIXI CEO to open up a third website with .in domain name. Businesses and companies can however create up to 100 websites, post which they too need to seek permission.
Internet experts however didn’t find the cause sensible.
Anil Kumar Jain, CEO, NIXI, said, “Domains are registered trademarks, right kind of people should register rather than anyone with fake identities. We have given instructions to registrars who are dealers booking the domain. They need to get proper information of the website applicant, which is sometimes not possible when it’s happening via a reseller. This new step was added to get the complete information in perspective.”
“This is for stricter compliance of information collection. The applicants have to share an explanation for why they need more websites along with their Aadhaar card and PAN card proofs. We are clearing this within 24 hours. And till now none of the requests have been rejected,” he said.
He added that this brings more discipline to the application process. This will apply to .in domains which come under the government’s purview, and this will not be applicable or expanded to .com, .net, .org or any other domains. NIXI also manages .bharat as a local language domain, available in all 22 languages, a feature unique to India.
The new regulation is in line with the US’ method of asking proofs and reason for setting up websites — but they too do it only for non-American citizens and not their own nationals.
NIXI currently doesn’t have data on previous cases of fraudulent websites created, saying it’s managed by CERT-In instead.
Amitabh Singhal, Director, Telxess Consulting Services and former CEO of NIXI, said that the idea of setting up NIXI was to promote .in domain and remove bureaucratic processes to make it easier for people to access .in domain names. Earlier, setting up domains involved a lot of documentation and separate fees.
He said, “A registry has to always keep a track of domain name abuse and use for malicious reasons. Why doesn’t NIXI have data pertaining to abuses being done through domain names. The reason for NIXI to do this is to protect, I have no doubt about that. But they need a way to do covert tracking in the backend and if someone is applying for more than two websites, then check their activities and based on suspicions, ask for further documents.”
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