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Registrars must fulfill the following eligibility criteria. The Registry will evaluate your answers based on the .IN accreditation process. All fields are required unless otherwise indicated.
Step 1: Fill out this application completely
Step 2: Review your application
Step 3: Preview, print out, sign, and mail a copy of the application to NIXI:

.IN Registry
c/o NIXI (National Internet eXchange of India)
Regd. Office: Incube Business Centre,5th Floor,
18,Nehru Place
New Delhi 110019
India
Tel: +91 11 3061 4624 / 4625
Fax: +91 11 3061 4629
E-Mail: registry@nixi.in
Step 4: Submit the application online
Contact and General Business Information
Q1. Name and business address of entity applicant
Q2   a. Type of business entity
    b. Location incorporated (jurisdiction)
Q3. Telephone number of applicant (+[country_code].[number]).
Include area/city code. Example: +91.1126424001
Q4. Facsimile number of applicant (+[country_code].[number]).
Include area/city code. Example: +91.1126424001
Q5. E-mail address of applicant
Q6. Name of contact person
Q7. Telephone number and email address of contact person, if different from 3 and 5 above
Q8. URL of your Web site
Criteria 1: Company Status and Business Plan
Provide information about your company status and business plan. This should include details about the company's management, technical systems, and financial status. This information should be sufficiently detailed in a business plan so as to show the ability to develop reliable registrar capabilities by the commencement of registrar's operation under accreditation.
Q9. Give an overview of your current business operations or business plan. (If you are a publicly traded company, this may be done by providing relevant sections of your most recent annual report.) (Limit: 5,000 characters)
Q10. Are you an ICANN-accredited registrar? Which TLDs are you accredited for? Which ccTLDs? (Limit: 500 characters)
Q11. Are you a reseller of an ICANN-accredited registrar or a .IN-accredited registrar? If so, indicate which one(s), and the number of new domain name registrations your company has made in the last 12 months. (Limit: 500 characters)
Q12. How much working capital do you have available for the operation of the registrar business? Is this level of liquid capital sufficient for your projected registration volume? The Registry may request evidence of working capital (for example, an audited statement for your most recent fiscal period). (Limit: 5,000 characters)

Q13. Please list (i) all directors, (ii) all officers, and (iii) any persons or entities owning five percent or more of your current or proposed business entity. Include the percentage of ownership for each person or entity. Note that any individual can appear on no more than three applications (total) to the Registry. (Limit: 5,000 characters)

  a. Directors / % Ownership
     
  b. Officers / % Ownership
     
  c. Other with 5% or more ownership / % Ownership

Q14. Indicate whether (i) the applicant or any of its (ii) officers, (iii) directors, or (iv) managers:

  a. within the past ten years, has been convicted of a felony or of a misdemeanor related to financial activities, or has been judged by a court to have committed fraud or breach of fiduciary duty, or has been the subject of a judicial determination that is similar or related to any of these;
     
  b. within the past ten years, has been disciplined by the government of its, her, or his domicile for conduct involving dishonesty or misuse of funds of others;
     
  c. is currently involved in any judicial or regulatory proceeding that could result in a conviction, judgment, determination, or discipline of the type specified in (a) or (b); or
     
  d. is the subject of a disqualification imposed by .IN Registry and in effect at the time of this application.
 
Applicant
Officers
Directors
Managers
a.
Yes No
Yes No
Yes No
Yes No
b.
Yes No
Yes No
Yes No
Yes No
c.
Yes No
Yes No
Yes No
Yes No
d.
Yes No
Yes No
Yes No
Yes No

If any of the above events have occurred, please provide details.(Limit: 1,000 characters)

Criteria 2: Secure Access
Provide secure, authenticated access to the Registry. The Registrar should also provide procedures for information systems security to prevent malicious or accidental disruption of the registrar's operations.
Q15. What is your capability (or proposal for capability) for providing information systems security procedures to prevent system hacks, break-ins, data tampering, and other disruptions to your operations? (Limit: 5,000 characters)
Criteria 3: Operational Stability and Scalability
Provide robust and scalable operations capable of handling the registration volume reasonably projected by the registrar.
Q16. Specify the details about your technical capabilities:
  a. Operating platform used for .IN registrations (hardware, networking equipment) (Limit: 500 characters)
     
  b. Software packages required to support .IN registrations (Limit: 500 characters)
     
  c. Standards supported for .IN registrations (Limit: 500 characters)
     
  d. Security of the software: provide details on how you intend to preserve the security of the software used in 16(b) above. (Limit: 1,000 characters)
Q17:

What management, communication, staffing and information processing systems do you have (or propose to have) to handle your projected volume of registration business? Please be specific. (For example, trouble ticket systems, on-call staff, etc.) (Limit: 5,000 characters)
Q18.   a. Do you own the system that you will use to interface with the registry?
Yes No
     
    b. Will you utilise any systems or software of another registrar, reseller, or service provider?
Yes No
     
    c. If so, which one(s)? (Limit: 1,000 characters)
Criteria 4: Prompt Changes to Registration Data

Allow for prompt handling of registrant requests for changes in registration data.

Q19. How will you ensure that registrant requests for changes in registry data will be handled promptly (Limit: 1,000 characters)
Criteria 5: Ease of Domain Transfer
Provide procedures that permit registrar's customers to change registrars without interruption in use of the assigned domain name.
Q20   a. Do you certify that you will promptly process registrant requests for a change in registrar?
Yes No
     
    b. Do you certify that you will not block registrants to transfer their names away from you?
Yes No
Criteria 6: Backup Facilities
Achieve a reliable and readily usable data backup and archival of all registrant and registration data.
Q21. What is your capability (or proposal for capability) for providing a reliable and readily usable daily backup and archive of all registration data? (Limit: 5,000 characters)
Criteria 7: Record Keeping
Maintain electronic copies of all transactions, correspondence, and communications with the Shared Registration System (SRS) for three years beyond the length of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement. The registrar will make these records available for inspection by the Registry upon reasonable notice.

Q22. What is your capability (or proposal for capability) for maintaining electronic copies of all transactions, correspondence, and communications with the SRS for three years beyond the length of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement? (Limit: 5,000 characters)
 
Criteria 8: Customer Service
Have the capacity to engage a sufficient number of qualified employees to handle the registration, update, and customer inquiry volumes.

Q23. Do you (or will you) have the capacity to engage a sufficient number of qualified employees to handle the registration, update, and customer inquiry volume you project? Provide Details. (Limit: 5,000 characters)
 
Criteria 9: Business Continuity
Ensure that the registrar's obligations to registrants and to the Registry administrator will be fulfilled in the event that the registrar goes out of business, including ensuring that registrants will continue to have use of their domains and that operation of the registrant's domains will not be adversely affected for the term of the registered domains.

Q24. What steps will you take to ensure that registrants will continue to have use of their domains, or that they can transfer them in case of your business failure? (Limit: 5,000 characters)
Criteria 10: Compliance with Registry Policies
Agree to and demonstrate the ability to comply with policies of the .IN Registry.

Q25. Can you meet all of a registrar's obligations under the Registrar Accreditation Agreement? If there are any provisions of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement you may not be able to fulfill, please explain the circumstances that prevent you from doing so. (Limit: 5,000 characters)
Criteria 11: Marketing Plan
Provide realistic capacity and plans to help market .IN domain names.

Q26. Please describe in detail your marketing plans for .IN domain names. (Limit: 5,000 characters)
Criteria 12: Legal Jurisdiction

Q27. Do you agree to be governed by the laws of India for matters relating to .IN domain names and to the jurisdiction of courts in New Delhi, India?

Yes No
WARRANTY
By signing this application form, you warrant that you have read, understood, and agree to abide by the Registry Registrar Agreement, the Access Agreements, and all published policies. In addition, you acknowledge that accreditation of registrars is at the sole discretion of the .IN Registry.
ATTESTATION OF TRUTHFUL DISCLOSURE

By submitting this application, the Applicant attests that the information contained in this application are true and accurate to the best of Applicant's knowledge. By submitting this application, the Applicant gives the .IN Registry and its contracted providers permission to contact third parties, investigate, request, and obtain additional information and documentation, and otherwise verify the information contained in this application. Applicant waives liability on the part of the .IN Registry and its contracted providers for its actions in verifying the information provided in this application. Applicant further waives liability on the part of any third parties who provide truthful, material, relevant information about Applicant as requested in this application.

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