.नेट

Overview

• .नेट is an internationalized gTLD (IDN) that is the Devanagari-script transliteration of the ASCII gTLD .net.
• It is intended to enable speakers and writers of Devanagari-script languages to use both the second-level label and the top-level domain in their native script (IDN.IDN).
• The TLD is managed and operated by Verisign and categorized as a technology/new gTLD.

History

• Delegation: The string .नेट was delegated to the DNS root zone on 28 July 2015.
• Operator/Registry: Verisign is the registry and manager of the TLD.
• Application: The applied-for string was revealed on 13 June 2012 as part of ICANN's New gTLD Program and the application succeeded.
• Program context: Verisign applied for multiple new gTLDs (14 in total), including several IDN transliterations of .com and .net; Devanagari was among the languages chosen for those transliterations.
• Miscellaneous: The TLD is listed with priority 37 in available summaries of delegated strings.

Usage and Audience

• Primary audience includes registrants of existing internationalized second-level domain names under .net who use Devanagari script.
• From the application materials: there were more than 800,000 internationalized second-level registrations in .net overall, including over 1,000 in Devanagari.
• Verisign positioned .नेट to allow these registrants to register matching IDN.IDN names, improving functionality and accessibility for non-Latin-script speakers.
• Initial target: approximately the ~1,000 Devanagari IDN second-level holders in .net were identified as the initial audience to be offered matching registrations under .नेट.

Notable Cases or Examples

• Verisign's IDN strategy included a "buy once" or matching-rights approach for some transliterated .com TLDs: existing registrants of second-level IDN names under .com could secure the matching name under the corresponding IDN .com transliteration. The company noted that those matching rights did not automatically extend to transliterations of .net in all cases.
• .नेट is explicitly described as the Devanagari transliteration of .net and part of Verisign's broader set of IDN transliterations (which also covered scripts such as Thai, Korean, Chinese, Hebrew, Russian, Arabic, and Japanese).

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domain:       नेट
domain-ace:   XN--C2BR7G

organisation: VeriSign Sarl
address:      3 rue des Pilettes
address:      Fribourg CH-1700
address:      Switzerland

contact:      administrative
name:         Registry Customer Service
organisation: Verisign, Inc.
address:      12061 Bluemont Way
address:      Reston VA 20190
address:      United States of America (the)
phone:        +1-703-925-6999
fax-no:       +1-703-948-3978
e-mail:       info@verisign-grs.com

contact:      technical
name:         Registry Customer Service
organisation: Verisign, Inc.
address:      12061 Bluemont Way
address:      Reston VA 20190
address:      United States of America (the)
phone:        +1-703-925-6999
fax-no:       +1-703-948-3978
e-mail:       info@verisign-grs.com

nserver:      AC1.NSTLD.COM 192.42.173.30 2001:500:120:0:0:0:0:30
nserver:      AC2.NSTLD.COM 192.42.174.30 2001:500:121:0:0:0:0:30
nserver:      AC3.NSTLD.COM 192.42.175.30 2001:500:122:0:0:0:0:30
nserver:      AC4.NSTLD.COM 192.42.176.30 2001:500:123:0:0:0:0:30
ds-rdata:     42810 8 2 5bf46578d493a97436a5852abbea6cd186bd5786ad7d08387b7430228371ee33

whois:        whois.nic.xn--c2br7g

status:       ACTIVE
remarks:      Registration information: http://www.verisigninc.com

created:      2015-07-02
changed:      2020-10-01
source:       IANA