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This is a global initiative, gybo.us, gybo.ca, etc. Not much new here, although it is a great program.
These are all built by my company - http://p.ota.to/work/getting-business-online/
very cool - great work!
Google offers Free Website with .in domains in India
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Re: Google offers Free Website with .in domains in India
#22BlogSpot is banned at work, but is this similar to the 'Getting British Business Online' ( http://www.gbbo.co.uk/ ) thing in the UK? Hmmm, I suppose not, as GBBO seems to be a partnership offer. Still, I think more people should be aware of it :)
GBBO is very poorly executed though. Google Sites was never intended to be used for external sites, and the sites are both difficult to navigate for the user and difficult to maintain for the company. The only redeeming factor of GBBO was the free .co.uk domain name, but that only saved local businesses around £10.
By execution, do you mean in terms of what the customer gets out of it?
Re: Google offers Free Website with .in domains in India
#23A great tool for domain harvesters. I expect all meaningful .in domains to exhaust in a few months giving way to black market.
It requires a PAN number, which seems to be a unique identifier for the entity that is registering the domain [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_account_number
Can PAN card be verified using API? If so then who all can get access to that?
Its impossible to verify otherwise.
Re: Google offers Free Website with .in domains in India
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
It requires a PAN number, which seems to be a unique identifier for the entity that is registering the domain [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_account_number
Can PAN card be verified using API? If so then who all can get access to that? Its impossible to verify otherwise.
Partners include FISME(Federation of Indian Micro and Small & Medium Enterprises), a not-for-profit that has a lot of pull within the government and a really popular bank - ICICI (that has access to PAN numbers anyway); so an internal service to verify PAN numbers would be quite possible.
PS - PAN numbers are like SSNs over here.
Re: Google offers Free Website with .in domains in India
#25A great tool for domain harvesters. I expect all meaningful .in domains to exhaust in a few months giving way to black market.
It requires a PAN number, which seems to be a unique identifier for the entity that is registering the domain [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_account_number
They can't verify the validity and authenticity of a PAN. Only a government/legal agency will be able to do it. So for this purpose I can just enter any arbitrary number that appears like a valid PAN and get through.
Re: Google offers Free Website with .in domains in India
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
It requires a PAN number, which seems to be a unique identifier for the entity that is registering the domain [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_account_number
Can PAN card be verified using API? If so then who all can get access to that? Its impossible to verify otherwise.
given the volumes, would not be too hard to do a manual verification with a 2-3 day turnaround
Re: Google offers Free Website with .in domains in India
#27Anybody else a bit sad that it's all in English rather than Hindi and Bengali? I can't read either, but having an option to read/create it in your native language would certainly speed up acceptance...
Re: Google offers Free Website with .in domains in India
#28They recently launched the same thing for Sweden: http://www.dittforetagonline.se/
The same for Spain. Are we the new India?
http://www.conectatunegocio.es/
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Re: Google offers Free Website with .in domains in India
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
It requires a PAN number, which seems to be a unique identifier for the entity that is registering the domain [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_account_number
Can PAN card be verified using API? If so then who all can get access to that? Its impossible to verify otherwise.
https://www.tin-nsdl.com/pan-verify/pan-verification-overvie...
Yes. It can be. Since the NSDL service is available to banks.
And since this program works in conjunction with ICICI. it's very possible