.भारत (.BHARAT) Country Code Top Level DOMAIN (ccTLD) NAME
The government on Wednesday launched the .bharat domain name in devanagari script covering eight languages including Hindi, Konkani and Marathi. With the launch, individuals of companies who are interested in owning a website with domain name in Hindi language would be able to book the name in Hindi script. The name would have '.bharat' in Hindi script as its extension instead of commonly top level domains such as .com, .net or .in. 1. In order to reach the benefits of the Internet to a larger part of the population use of local scripts and languages will be very critical. 1.1 Internet Domain Names play an important role towards proliferation of Internet and its applications. Today almost all applications of Internet in education, commerce, governance, health sector, and entertainment are carried out through the web portals having Internet domain Names. 1.2 The domain names in local languages are called Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). IDNs 4