Followers of Naavi are aware that Naavi has been maintaining the informational website on ita 2000 since 2000 and on dpdpa or its variants since 2018. The objective of this has been to enable the creation of awareness of the law for compliance.
We are aware that Nixi has been allowing several fraudsters to register domains in the dot in name including “ministryofsecurity.co” with MOS in the logo.
NIXI also failed to protect the interest of the domain name users who were affected by the Net4India closure.
NIXI has failed to stop the obnoxious practice of domain name owners hiding behind the non available privacy considerations.
NIXI has failed to urge their customers go for DPDPA compliance.
However, NIXI is targeting Naavi with the following mail:
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On Fri, 1 Aug, 2025, 13:50 Registry, registry@nixi.in wrote:
Dear Registrar/Registrant,
This is to inform you that Govt. of India desires to get the domain dpdpa.in registered for itself. Presently the registrant of the domain as reflected in the WHOIS data is Ujvala Consultants Private Limited & Registrar is Good Domain Registry Private Limited.
According to Clause 12(2) of the Terms and Conditions for Registrants (https://registry.in/system/files/Terms_and_Conditions_for_Registrants.pdf)
Reservation of Rights for the .IN Registry: “The .IN Registry reserves the right to instruct its Registry Services Provider to deny, cancel, transfer or otherwise make unavailable any registration that it deems necessary or place any domain name(s) on registry lock and/or put a domain name on hold in its discretion : (1) to protect the integrity and stability of .IN Registry; (2) to comply with any applicable laws, Indian government rules or requirements, requests of law enforcement, in compliance with any dispute resolution process; (3) to avoid any liability, civil or criminal, on the part of the .IN Registry, as well as its affiliates, subsidiaries, officers, directors, representatives and employees; (4) for violations of this Agreement; or (5) to correct mistakes made by Registry or any Registrar in connection with a domain name registration. The Registry also reserves the right to freeze a domain name during resolution of a dispute pending before arbitrator(s) appointed under Registry’s Domain Name Resolution Policy and/or a court of competent jurisdiction”.
Based on the above, .IN Registry has placed the domain name dpdpa.in under server locks. Should you need any clarification on this matter, please feel free to contact us within 05 working days and .IN Registry shall initiate the transfer of the domain dpdpa.in to Govt. of India thereafter.
Regards,
.IN Registry
National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI)
B-901, 9th Floor Tower B, World Trade Centre,
Nauroji Nagar, New Delhi-110029
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I am not sure if “DPDPA” has any trademark rights which can be usurped against the First Cum first served basis.
It is unfortunate that NIXI wants to take action against persons who are working for the benefit of the nation and without even making a request separately to hand over the domain which could have been considered favourably, decided to exercise its rights.
Over the last several years, I have personally brought to the notice of Nixi several cyber crime peddling websites but they have shown no interest in responding.
Hope they will explain why they have suddenly raised to hit this domain name. I presume that there was a complaint from some competitors who might have used their influence on NIXI to send out this notice.
In the absence of any clarification, we will presume that there is some back door manoeuvre resulting in this action.
I consider this as a notice to NIXI and demand that they provide explanation on which of the following reasons they are trying to exercise their rights.
(1) to protect the integrity and stability of .IN Registry;
(2) to comply with any applicable laws, Indian government rules or requirements, requests of law enforcement, in compliance with any dispute resolution process;
(3) to avoid any liability, civil or criminal, on the part of the .IN Registry, as well as its affiliates, subsidiaries, officers, directors, representatives and employees;
(4) for violations of this Agreement; or
(5) to correct mistakes made by Registry or any Registrar in connection with a domain name registration.
I request the legal department of NIXI provide a clarification through my email.
Naavi
