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| Minister for IT and Communications Kapil Sibal flanked by Secretary, IT, J. Satyanarayana (left), and CEO of NIXI Govind at the launch of National Internet Registry services in the Capital on Thursday. — Ramesh Sharma |
New Delhi, March 7: Using Internet
services will become cheaper with the Government on Thursday launching
National Internet Registry (NIR) in the country.
This
will enable Internet service providers to buy Internet protocol (IP)
addresses from this registry in India, instead of buying it from
international agencies.
Till now, companies wanting
to get an IP addresses in the country had to apply to APNIC (a regional
Internet registry based in Australia), which was time consuming and also
expensive.
By setting up a local NIR, buying IP addresses will get
cheaper by around 70 per cent. This also allows Indians can buy the IP
addresses in Indian rupees instead of paying in dollars.
“For
example, if an IP address was costing $2,000 (Rs 1.08 lakh), now it can
be bought at around $800 (Rs 43,200). This will ultimately make the
Internet services cheaper to end consumers as the service providers can
sell the IP addresses cheaper to its customers,” an Internet service
provider said.
While launching the registry
Communication and IT Minister Kapil Sibal said,” Setting up of NIR will
not only reduce cost in procuring IP address but will also facilitate
faster access to information for cyber crime investigators and
Government authorities.”
The Department of Electronics and Information
Technology (DeitY) had entrusted the operations of NIR to National
Internet Exchange of India earlier, which was recognised by the Asia
Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) in March last year.
Globally,
IP addresses are controlled by the US-based Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Though, ICANN will remain the mother
source of getting the IP addresses and will sell it through APNIC,
India will buy the IP addresses from NIR only.
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