Support From Organisations Such As APNIC, INNIC And INTERNIC

 

APNIC

APNIC is one of the three Internet Address Registry organisations, which exist in the world today. It has responsibility for allocation of Internet resources across the Asia-Pacific. They work actively with networking organisations in this region, and with the international community of Internet organisations, on non-for-profit basis in the service of the Internet community in the Asia-Pacific. The objects of APNIC are:

a. To provide the service of allocating and registering Internet resources for the purpose of enabling communications via
    open system network protocols and to assist in the development and growth of the Internet in the Asia and Pacific Rim
    region;

b. To assist the Asia and Pacific Rim Internet community in the development of procedures, mechanisms, and standards to
    efficiently allocate Internet resources as a service to the community as a whole;

c.To provide educational opportunities to further Members' technical and policy understanding of the indtistry;

d.To develop public policies and public positions in the best interest of the Members and to seek legislative and regulatory
   consideration of issues of general benefit to the Members, where and when appropriate;

e.To serve as the administrative, managerial and operations arm of APNIC Ltd. ("the corporation"), and to transact all
   activities, functions and affairs on behalf and in the name, of the corporation.

ISP's will need to approach APNIC directly to access following resources :

1. IP Address

2. IN-ARPA Delegation

3. Autonomous System Number

4. APNIC documents

More details are available at http://www.internic.net

INTERNIC

The InterNIC provides domain name registration services for the top level domains .com, .net, .org, and .edu.
More details are available at http://www.internic.net

National Cenfre for Science and Technology (Domain Registrar, .in Domain)

NCST is responsible for registration of .in domain. All the companies requiring the name registered under this domain.

The contact details for NCST is given below :

Domain Registrar
National Centre for Software Technology
8th Floor, Air India Building
Nariman Point, Mumbai – 400 021
India
domain-reg@sangam.ncst.ernet.in
More details are available at http://indom.ncst.ernet.in


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