Companies and LLPs
A Pvt Ltd, OPC or LLP whose name reads naturally with .co.in, much like "& Co." on a letterhead.
Commercial India · .IN Registry
.co.in domain registration for Indian companies.
A .co.in costs ₹399 for the first year and renews at ₹599, + GST, the lowest renewal of the three names most Indian businesses weigh up. The "co" says commercial, and anyone can register one.
No company papers needed
Same NIXI rules as .in
Free DNS, lock and DNSSEC
.co.in
ccTLD
- Register
- ₹399
- Renew
- ₹599/yr
- Transfer
- ₹599+1 yr
Owning yourbrand for 5 years
First year plus four renewals, excluding 18% GST.
Who it suits
A .co.in says "a business trading in India".
The "co" stands for commercial, the same idea as .co.uk. Visitors read it as a company rather than a person or a charity, and it costs less to keep than either .in or .com.
Startups whose .in is taken
A short, clean .co.in usually beats a long or hyphenated .in, and renews for ₹200 a year less.
Shops and local services
Retailers, restaurants, coaching centres and service firms whose customers are all in India.
Brands guarding their name
Businesses that already own the .in or .com and want the .co.in so nobody else can trade on it.
Side by side
.co.in vs .in vs .com: cost, rules and how they read.
All three work identically for websites, email and SSL certificates. The differences are in what they cost over time, which rules apply and what the ending tells a visitor.
| Feature | .co.in | .in | .com |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | |||
| First year | ₹399 | ₹499 | ₹899 |
| Renewal, per year | ₹599 | ₹799 | ₹1,199 |
| Transfer in, +1 year | ₹599 | ₹799 | ₹1,099 |
| 5-year total | ₹2,795 | ₹3,695 | ₹5,695 |
| 10-year total | ₹5,790 | ₹7,690 | ₹11,690 |
| Restore fee after expiry | ₹4,999 | ₹4,999 | ₹6,999 |
| Rules | |||
| Registry | NIXI | NIXI | Verisign |
| Who can register | Anyone | Anyone | Anyone |
| Name disputes | INDRP | INDRP | UDRP |
| WHOIS privacy | Not offered | Not offered | Included |
| DNSSEC | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Perception | |||
| Reads as | A business in India | Anything Indian | No country |
| Characters after the name | 6 | 3 | 4 |
| Free year one with hosting | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Restore fees are added to the renewal. Totals are the first year plus renewals. Weighing up all three? Read .in or .com: choosing a domain for an Indian business, or see prices for all 29 extensions.
Brand protection
Register the .co.in and the .in together.
Owning one doesn't stop anyone registering the other. If a competitor or a domain trader takes yourbrand.in while you build on yourbrand.co.in, the people who type the shorter name, and the emails sent to it, reach them instead. The pair costs ₹898 in the first year and ₹1,398 a year after that, + GST. Already taken? A WHOIS lookup shows who holds it and when it expires.
- 1Pick one main addressUse it on invoices, signage, WhatsApp and email.
- 2Redirect the otherA 301 redirect from your hosting, or our free URL forwarding, sends both names to one site.
- 3Add the .com if you'll sell abroad₹899 for the first year; forward it the same way.
- 4Check the trade mark registerA domain gives you no rights to a name. Search IP India before you print anything; a clash can cost you the domain under INDRP.
Registration rules
.co.in rules, and what they mean for a company.
.co.in sits under the .in country code, so NIXI's .IN Registry sets the rules. Most catch people out not at registration but years later, when a renewal notice goes to someone who has left.
Anyone can register
Despite the commercial label, no incorporation certificate, GST number or Indian address is needed. Sole proprietors and people outside India qualify too.
Register it to the business
Put the company's legal name in the organisation field and keep the domain in an account the company controls, not a developer's or agency's.
Keep the details current
Contact details must be accurate: update them within 7 days of a change and answer any accuracy check within 15 days, or the name can be suspended.
Use an address that outlives staff
A shared registrant email such as domains@ on another domain keeps renewal and transfer notices reaching the company when people move on.
A 60-day transfer lock
A new .co.in stays with its first registrar for 60 days. After that it can move with its auth code; a transfer here costs ₹599 and adds a year.
No privacy service
Like every .in-family name, a .co.in can't have WHOIS privacy, another reason to register it to the business address rather than a home.
Free .co.in with hosting
Pick .co.in as your free domain with 12-month+ hosting.
Order a web or WordPress hosting plan on a 12, 24 or 36-month term and choose .co.in as its free domain. Year one costs nothing; from year two it renews at ₹599, the lowest renewal of the three free extensions. If the hosting is refunded, ₹399 is deducted from the refund. Offer details
Web hosting
from ₹79/mo
cPanel, LiteSpeed, free SSL
WordPress hosting
from ₹129/mo
Managed updates, staging
Lowest prices are on 36-month terms, + 18% GST.
.co.in domain FAQs: value, typos and switching later.
Something else? Email [email protected] or open a ticket; the desk is staffed 24/7 in English and Hindi.
Technically they're identical: same registry, same rules, same support for email and SSL. The difference is length and habit. People find .in quicker to say and type, so when both are free many businesses make the .in the main address and keep the .co.in to protect it. The .in domain page covers the shorter option.
No. NIXI lets anyone register a .co.in, including sole proprietors, freelancers, partnerships and people outside India. No incorporation certificate or GST number is asked for; the contact details just have to be accurate.
Some will. .co is Colombia's extension and .com is a different name altogether, so mail sent to either goes elsewhere. Say the full address when you share it, print it clearly, and consider owning the .com version too (₹899 for the first year) and forwarding it to your site.
Yes. Register the .in if it's available, point it at the same hosting, make it the main address and 301-redirect the .co.in to it so links and search rankings carry over. Keep renewing the .co.in afterwards so old emails, invoices and printed material still reach you.
You have up to 30 days' grace to renew at the normal ₹599. After that the name enters redemption, where restoring it costs the ₹4,999 restore fee plus the renewal. If it isn't restored, the registry deletes it and anyone can register it. See the recovery timeline.
Yes. A .co.in takes any MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC records, so every email provider works. Add the records they give you in our free DNS manager, or use our business email from ₹49 a mailbox. How to set up SPF, DKIM and DMARC.
₹599 + GST, which includes a year added to your current expiry date. The domain must be at least 60 days past its registration or its last transfer. Start a domain transfer.
From ₹399 a year
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