India uses .in, .co.in, open to registrants worldwide. Below: who operates each namespace, what its rules actually constrain, the accredited local registrars, and how global registrars compare on price where we hold a sourced figure.
Of the 11 local storefronts read on 2026-09-29, Ddomains prints the lowest standing .in price: INR 588.82 incl. VAT, computed from INR 499.00 ex. VAT, then Hostinger at INR 1,060.82 incl. VAT, computed from INR 899.00 ex. VAT; INR 1.00 first year. NIXI accredits 161 registrars to sell .in; none of them is tested or scored here. Global registrars that sell .in in US dollars are the global option for a buyer in India, not a recommendation in it.
Registrars accredited by National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), operator of the .IN Registry
These 161 companies are accredited by the India registry to sell .in, .co.in. Every figure below is a fact the registry publishes, read from its accredited-registrar list on 2026-09-29.
National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), operator of the .IN Registry publishes 161 registrars under contract for .in, .co.in. Of those, it lists 0 as offering DNSSEC.
We have not tested any of these registrars, so nothing here carries a price, a score or a ranking. Comparing them on price and service is work we have not done, and saying which is better would be invention.
Which registrars have a Hindi / English site, bill in INR and sell .in?
Three conditions decide whether a registrar can be recommended in India rather than merely to the world from it: an interface in an official language, billing in the local currency, and selling the local namespace. All three must hold. No registrar we track currently meets all three here.
Bills in USD only. "All prices are in USD" is a positive statement that no other billing currency is offered, so this is a recorded 'no' on every non-USD currency rather than an absence.
Offers INR in a currency selector, but whether the card is charged in INR or in USD after a conversion is not established. Nine currencies in the selector, which is more than any other registrar tracked here. Whether the card is charged in the selected currency or in USD after a conversion is NOT established: https://www.dynadot.com/community/help/question/change-currency was read on the same date and says nothing about how charges are made or about an exchange rate. Until that is established these do not pass the currency condition, because the condition exists to protect a buyer from a conversion fee and a display-only currency does not.
Bills in USD only. "All pricing is per year and in USD." is a positive statement that no other billing currency is offered, as Porkbun's is; recorded as a 'no' on every non-USD currency.
Offers INR in a currency selector, but whether the card is charged in INR or in USD after a conversion is not established. Thirteen currencies in the selector (AU$, R$, CA$, ¥, €, £, ₹, MX$, ₱, ﷼, ฿, ₺, USD $). Whether the card is charged in the selected currency is not established by the page, so none passes the currency condition.
A dash is ignorance, not a failing grade: it means we have not established that condition either way. Several registrars render their language and currency switchers in JavaScript, which the read behind this table cannot see, so we record nothing rather than a false “no”. A currency that appears only in a display selector does not count as billing in that currency, because a converted price charged in dollars is exactly the case this condition exists to catch.
Where to buy a .in: NIXI-accredited registrars, read from their own storefronts
NIXI's list of .IN accredited registrars (161 names, Indian and foreign) was read on 2026-09-29, and 11 storefronts were opened from it. GoDaddy, BigRock (both addresses) and Namecheap refused the read; HostingRaja, Rediff, IN Registrar and HostIndia printed no .in price on the pages reached. Go4hosting prints .in in rupees without GST wording, and Hostinger and Ddomains print .in excluding 18% GST, Hostinger behind a first-year offer.
Ordered by the standing .in price each registrar's own page printed on 2026-09-29: the renewal where the page states one, else the regular price, VAT included (added at 18% where the page states prices excluding it). Price only: this site has not tested their support, uptime or transfers, and none of them carries a score.
Ordered by the standing .in price each registrar's own page printed on 2026-09-29: the renewal where the page states one, else the regular price, VAT included (added at 18% where the page states prices excluding it). Price only: this site has not tested their support, uptime or transfers, and none of them carries a score.
Read, not ranked
A local-language storefront, but no .in price with its VAT treatment on the page read.
Not read on 2026-09-29: GoDaddy (HTTP 403 "Access Denied" on 2026-09-29. Nothing read.); BigRock (HTTP 403 Cloudflare "Just a moment..." challenge on 2026-09-29. Nothing read.); Endurance India (BigRock) (HTTP 403 Cloudflare "Just a moment..." challenge on 2026-09-29. Nothing read.); Namecheap (HTTP 403 Cloudflare "Just a moment..." challenge on 2026-09-29. Nothing read.). Unread is a fact about our read, not a finding about the registrar.
Best options in India
No registrar we track meets all three local conditions in India.
Porkbun, Namecheap, Cloudflare Registrar, GoDaddy, Dynadot, Spaceship, NameSilo, Gandi, OVHcloud, Name.com, IONOS, AWS Route 53 sell .in, but none of them has been established to bill in INR or to run a Hindi or English-language storefront. Where we have simply not checked, the table above says so rather than counting it against them.
For .in itself, the registry’s own accredited registrars are the route, and they are listed on this page above. We have not tested them, so we name them rather than rank them.
Verified .com renewal of $11.08. Not the cheapest .com we verify: Spaceship renews at $10.18, 9% less. Porkbun is the pick here for catalogue breadth, not for price. WHOIS privacy: free, included by default.
Buying a gTLD through an English-language registrar that bills in dollars is a real and common choice, so it is named with the trade stated rather than dropped. It is not a recommendation in India: the conditions it misses are in the column above.
Business use, globally
Namecheap
Support channels: 24/7 live chat, ticket support, knowledge base.
Developers, globally
Cloudflare Registrar
Industry-leading anycast DNS with deep developer tooling. Public API documented.
These two are the site’s global picks and are the same on every country page, which is why they are labelled globally and sit outside the table above. Nothing about a registrar’s API or its support channels changes at a border; what does change is language, billing currency and whether it can sell the local namespace, and that is what the eligibility table measures.
Pricing fetched from each registrar's own pricing page on the date shown. Local registrars may bill in INR and add VAT/GST/sales tax on top.
INRegistry also operates IDN forms in 15 scheduled Indian languages, most notably .भारत (.bharat). Government and educational namespaces (.gov.in, .nic.in, .ac.in, .edu.in) are gated and not sold by commercial registrars.
Pricing fetched from each registrar's own pricing page on the date shown. Local registrars may bill in INR and add VAT/GST/sales tax on top.
Less universally stocked than .in among non-Indian registrars; verify on the registrar's TLD list before purchase. BigRock has the deepest discounts at first-year.
Namespace map
What you can register under .in
The Public Suffix List records 47 registrable namespaces under .in.
Registrable namespaces under .in from the Public Suffix List, with which of the registrars this site tracks sell each one and the cheapest renewal price we have verified.
Operator: National Internet Exchange of India · .in signed in the root zone (2026-09-28)
A namespace no tracked registrar sells is not a namespace you cannot register: most country-code registries delegate to their own accredited registrars, listed above where we have the registry's list. It is also not a namespace anyone may register - registries reserve some for schools, government, health services or licensed providers, and this table states eligibility only where we read it from the registry itself.
Registered directly under their root labels
The Public Suffix List records no delegated second-level namespaces under these delegations: a name is registered directly under the root label, at the second level, rather than under a category such as co. or org.
.ಭಾರತ.xn--2scrj9cNational Internet eXchange of Indiasigned in the root zone
.ଭାରତ.xn--3hcrj9cNational Internet eXchange of Indiasigned in the root zone
.ভাৰত.xn--45br5cylNational Internet eXchange of Indiasigned in the root zone
.ভারত.xn--45brj9cNational Internet Exchange of Indiasigned in the root zone
.భారత్.xn--fpcrj9c3dNational Internet Exchange of Indiasigned in the root zone
.ભારત.xn--gecrj9cNational Internet Exchange of Indiasigned in the root zone
.भारतम्.xn--h2breg3eveNational Internet eXchange of Indiasigned in the root zone
.भारत.xn--h2brj9cNational Internet Exchange of Indiasigned in the root zone
.भारोत.xn--h2brj9c8cNational Internet eXchange of Indiasigned in the root zone
.بارت.xn--mgbbh1aNational Internet eXchange of Indiasigned in the root zone
.بھارت.xn--mgbbh1a71eNational Internet Exchange of Indiasigned in the root zone
.ڀارت.xn--mgbgu82aNational Internet eXchange of Indiasigned in the root zone
.ഭാരതം.xn--rvc1e0am3eNational Internet eXchange of Indiasigned in the root zone
.ਭਾਰਤ.xn--s9brj9cNational Internet Exchange of Indiasigned in the root zone
.இந்தியா.xn--xkc2dl3a5ee0hNational Internet Exchange of Indiasigned in the root zone
Verified and sample pricing per registrar for this TLD, with first-year, renewal, ten-year cost and the date each figure was checked
Registrar
First-year
Renewal
10-year cost
WHOIS privacy
Last checked
(verified price)
Spaceship
$9.08
$10.18
$100.70
Free
2026-09-02
(verified price)
Dynadot
$10.88
$10.88
$108.80
Free
2026-09-28
(verified price)
Porkbun
$11.08
$11.08
$110.80
Free
2026-09-28
(verified price)
OVHcloud
$9.20
$14.69
$141.41
Available; contact data red…
2026-09-28
(verified price)
AAmazon Route 53
$16.00
$16.00
$160.00
Free, with exceptions
2026-09-29
(verified price)
NNameSilo
$17.29
$17.29
$172.90
Free
2026-09-28
(verified price)
Namecheap
$11.28
$18.48
$177.60
Free, with exceptions
2026-08-19
(verified price)
Hover
$18.99
$18.99
$189.90
Free, with exceptions
2026-09-28
(verified price)
NName.com
$12.99
$19.99
$192.90
Available (Whois Privacy) o…
2026-09-28
(verified price)
IONOS
$1.00
$20.00
$181.00
Available; contact data red…
2026-09-29
(verified price)
Gandi
$11.00
$38.38
$356.42
Free, with exceptions
2026-09-28
Compared across the 11 registrars whose .com price we have read ourselves.
Most global registrars price domains in USD; local registrars often invoice in INR.
Can a registrar we track handle India?
.co.in is sold by 4 of the registrars whose prices we verify, renewing from $5.01: less than the cheapest verified .com at $10.18.
At $5.01 a year, .co.in is the 6th cheapest of the 295 extensions we hold verified prices for: $5.17 less than the cheapest verified .com. Registering locally costs less here than registering the default.
India ccTLDs and whether a registrar we verify sells each one
Renewals are all-in and per year, at the cheapest registrar we verify for that extension, checked 2026-09-29. The .com reference is the cheapest verified .com renewal ($10.18). "Listed" counts registrars our country notes record as selling the extension without a price we have read ourselves.
What this page does not tell you: how the registrars based in India compare. We list 161 of them by name only, no prices, no scores, no hands-on testing, so any claim here that a local registrar is cheaper, better supported or easier to pay would be invention. Where local billing in Indian Rupee (INR), local-language support, or a registry rule requires a local registrar, that is a reason to use one, and comparing them is work we have not done.
FAQ
What is the best domain registrar in India?+
Of the 11 local storefronts read on 2026-09-29, Ddomains prints the lowest standing .in price: INR 588.82 incl. VAT, computed from INR 499.00 ex. VAT, then Hostinger at INR 1,060.82 incl. VAT, computed from INR 899.00 ex. VAT; INR 1.00 first year. NIXI accredits 161 registrars to sell .in; none of them is tested or scored here. Global registrars that sell .in in US dollars are the global option for a buyer in India, not a recommendation in it.
Do I need a local presence to register a .in domain?+
No: open to anyone globally. Indian residents commonly use .in, .co.in, .firm.in, .gen.in, .ind.in second-level forms.
Which global registrars sell .in?+
Porkbun, Namecheap, Cloudflare Registrar, GoDaddy, Dynadot, Spaceship, NameSilo, Gandi, OVHcloud, Name.com, IONOS, AWS Route 53. INRegistry also operates IDN forms in 15 scheduled Indian languages, most notably .भारत (.bharat). Government and educational namespaces (.gov.in, .nic.in, .ac.in, .edu.in) are gated and not sold by commercial registrars.
Which currency are domains billed in for users in India?+
Most global registrars bill in USD regardless of buyer location. Local registrars typically invoice in Indian Rupee (INR). BigRock, GoDaddy India, ZNetLive, and Hostinger India bill in INR with 18% GST applied and accept UPI, RuPay, Net Banking, and major credit cards. Global registrars bill in USD; Indian banks usually apply a foreign-currency surcharge.
What payment methods work in India?+
BigRock, GoDaddy India, ZNetLive, and Hostinger India bill in INR with 18% GST applied and accept UPI, RuPay, Net Banking, and major credit cards. Global registrars bill in USD; Indian banks usually apply a foreign-currency surcharge.
