How to buy a domain in india and which place is best to buy it?

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I am looking towards buying a domain name for a site. But I have no idea about which providers are good. I have only heard about go daddy or hostinger. Which provider do you guys recommend or have used?

Also Does registering a domain name gives copyright protection?

I personally use Namecheap. They are pretty good and the service is good as well. They also have INR option for payment.

RumbaMon19 said:
Also Does registering a domain name gives copyright protection?

Copyright protection on what? The domain name? If someone else claims copyright on the name you will probably have to settle that in court in any case. You should trademark or copyright the name with the appropriate agencies as well to truly be protected.

Desmond said:
Copyright protection on what? The domain name? If someone else claims copyright on the name you will probably have to settle that in court in any case. You should trademark or copyright the name with the appropriate agencies as well to truly be protected.

Well guess I will have no other option.

Trademarking/copyrighting in india takes fair bit of time and money(About a year or two of no one challenge it and about 50K-1Lakh depending on lawyer fees and time)

There could be exceptions. For example, there was one guy in the forum who bought dota2.co.in (or was it dota2.in I don't remember), but Valve didn't care since they don't use (and need) a .co.in domain.

I found BigRock better. Their DNS is good and renewal is cheaper. Please compare before buying if you plan to renew the domain. Also .co.in, .tech, .online are initially cheaper but very costly to renew.
I once purchased from a cheap India based reseller and it was a nightmare as their DNS used to be down most of the time.

bubusam13 said:
I once purchased from a cheap India based reseller and it was a nightmare as their DNS used to be down most of the time.

You can always switch to another registrar.

Yes I can do that. But After I paid for initial 2 years, I am not going to get the refund if I switch in between.

I see. This is why I generally pay in one year intervals.

My vote also for Namecheap. This year happened to be 10th year I am using my own domain from them.
Apart from that I also bought few more domains from them in later years. Never faced any issues.

I used some Indian domain registrar such as Mitsu.

From here(seems part of NiXi) you can see list of all accredited registrars.