National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI)

The National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) has been established as a not for profit Organization under section 25 of the Companies Act 1956 and was registered in July, 2003. The National Internet Exchange of India is the neutral meeting point of the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the country. Its main purpose is to facilitate exchange of domestic Internet traffic between the peering ISP members. Five additional Internet Exchange Nodes have been operationalised at Ahmedabad (Gujarat), Bengaluru (Karnataka), Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh), Mohali (Chandigarh) and Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) to add to the existing NIXI hubs at Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai and Noida.


It manages the .IN Registry for the Country Code Top Level Domain Name in the country. Presently, more than 73 Registrars have been accredited to offer .IN domain name registration worldwide to customers. It has in turn also helped in proliferation of Web hosting in the country and Indian language content in the Internet. 5.5 lakh .IN Domain Names have been registered till November 10, 2009. Two Data Centers have been established in Delhi and Chennai towards disaster management with an up time of maximum 5 minutes.