Retroactive ban could make it harder to trade .in domains.
NIXI, the non-profit organization that manages India’s .in country code domain, is proposing a significant change to registration rules: no more domain investing.
Currently, there’s a prohibition against domain name registrars involving themselves in any way in the “squatting, grabbing, hoarding, infringement, auctioning, drop catch or selling of the .IN domain names at a exceptionally higher price than the published MRP they are regularly charging from the public”. Now it might retroactively apply this rule to registrants.
NIXI is concerned that some registrars are getting around its rule by using registrants as proxies. So it proposes throwing out the legitimate domain investors with the bath water.
This would obviously be a massive blow to people who invest in .in domains, including many people in India.
.In has always been a risky market for domain investing. Decisions under NIXI’s UDRP-like system can be baffling, and it even removed published decisions at one point. And NIXI’s management has made strange and arbitrary rules, such as limiting registrants to just two domain registrations at once.
It’s how I would imagine Elon Musk running a domain registry. It’s not a predictable and safe environment for those trying to do business.
Internet Commerce Association has written to NIXI opposing the new rule.
Ask ankur raheja who became judge in nixi after just loosing my .in case against vijay mallya. Quite a coincidence sir.
They can ban all those dot whatever but leave the dot com alone.
henceforth,this will literally and definitely make dot com more valuable.
Not as bad as .ae (United Araba Emirates) If “they” want your domain there there is no due process whatsoever, they simply take your domains and that is end of it. No right to reply nothing.
Give me an example of a .ae domain that was taken away from you.
Yes you right but in some cases
Not sure I understand the dig at Elon Musk. You want to reinstate censorship on Twitter?
He changes things on a whim at Twitter, making it difficult to rely on. For example, he (at least temporarily) turned off embedded tweets. So all of the embedded tweets on Domain Name Wire stopped running.
For racist, far right content? Why not?
Or alternatively, allow it but you have to use your real name and not some anonymous “Schultzie69” name. If you feel that passionate about something why not put your real name next to those tweets? Why be shy? Or are you afraid of the consequences?
FYI: Not directing this at you.
My article on
“.in Domain Investing: From (?) to the proposed (.)
Apples and oranges are different and need to be treated differently.”
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-domain-name-extensions-cost-trademark-owners-part/?trackingId=YXuoYI8xSFOTZzzO1b2pWw%3D%3D