Nixi CEO says 400+ banks moved to .bank.in to comply with RBI mandate

More than 400 banks nationwide have moved their websites to the ‘.bank.in’ domain, complying with a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) mandate, National Internet Exchange of India (Nixi) chief executive Devesh Tyagi said on Thursday.

In a bid to enhance cybersecurity, prevent phishing, and help customers distinguish legitimate banking sites from fraudulent ones, the RBI had mandated that all regulated banks in India migrate their official websites to the secure .bank.in domain by October 31, 2025.

While some failed to meet the deadline, all major entities have now complied, Tyagi told ET. Speaking at a briefing on the upcoming 85th international meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) in Mumbai in March, Tyagi said India aims to secure ‘.india’, ‘.bharat’ and other domains at the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) application round set to be held in April.


Icann regulates the internet’s protocol for domain names and numbers. Its upcoming gTLD application round is being held after 14 years, and will give Indian companies, businesses, cities, and organisations a rare chance to apply for their own domain name extensions.

While international corporations like Google (.google), Microsoft (.microsoft), and Barclays (.barclays) already operate their own extensions, India’s footprint is modest. Speaking at the briefing, electronics and information technology secretary S Krishnan said 3.85 million .in domain names have been issued, which is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for India.

“We have encouraged more and more organisations, specially official organisations and banks to move to a .in extension name. We want to build trust in the Indian domains by having a more robust KYC regime,” he said.