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NEW DELHI: In a fresh move to Indianise the web, the government is planning to have vernacular domain names. This means that âdot inâ domain names that link to the vernacular website can also be in vernacular languages. As of now the âdot inâ registry has to offer only english domain names.
âWhile there are websites with Indian language content, one is yet to see a web address in Hindi or Tamil,â said an IT ministry official. âWe are working on a mechanism to enable a user to have his domain name in the language of his choice,â he added. The ministry through the National Internet eXchange of India (NIXI) offers âdot inâ domain names to the public. The vernacular domain names will also be available with NIXI.
âTo enable this, the web portal has to be positioned for local language characters,â the official said. The department of information technology (DIT) in association with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is preparing a variant table for characters of various Indian languages. âThe pilot project to enable this mechanism will be carried out in 2007,â the official said. The pricing of the vernacular domain names will be chalked out once the projects are in progress.
This is the IT ministryâs second move to enable net surfing in vernacular languages for Indians. The ministry is also preparing a web-based software that will act as a search engine seamlessly running across all the prominent Indian language scripts. For instance, a Punjabi looking for some information that is available only on Tamil script can use the software to prowl the web and get the needed info back in Gurmukhi, translated from the Tamil one.
âWhile there are websites with Indian language content, one is yet to see a web address in Hindi or Tamil,â said an IT ministry official. âWe are working on a mechanism to enable a user to have his domain name in the language of his choice,â he added. The ministry through the National Internet eXchange of India (NIXI) offers âdot inâ domain names to the public. The vernacular domain names will also be available with NIXI.
âTo enable this, the web portal has to be positioned for local language characters,â the official said. The department of information technology (DIT) in association with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is preparing a variant table for characters of various Indian languages. âThe pilot project to enable this mechanism will be carried out in 2007,â the official said. The pricing of the vernacular domain names will be chalked out once the projects are in progress.
This is the IT ministryâs second move to enable net surfing in vernacular languages for Indians. The ministry is also preparing a web-based software that will act as a search engine seamlessly running across all the prominent Indian language scripts. For instance, a Punjabi looking for some information that is available only on Tamil script can use the software to prowl the web and get the needed info back in Gurmukhi, translated from the Tamil one.