Business
Standered , 11 Oct, 2001 Keywords
gain momentum in India
New
Delhi : Net4India, an Internet
services and Infrastructure company, today
said Indian corporates have shown allot
of interest in the new keyword
naming system launched recently. The companies
currently using include Maruti, Godrej,
Tata Group, Polaris Software, Concor and
Indya.com, the Net4India said in a release
today, adding that it is undertaking a
marketing drive to spread the awareness
and adoption of the system.
Business
Standered , 10 Sept, 2001 Net
4 India plans Rs. 35-cr expansion
Internet
Infrastructure and services company, Net4india,
has drawn up a Rs. 35 crore investment
plan for expansion. "We will invest
Rs. 35 crore over next 18 months to set
up three regional and one major data center
in Gurgaon, besides setting up IT service
centers in south east and middle east
regions" CEO, Net4india Jasjit Sawhney,
said. As of now the company's total investment
stands at Rs. 40 crore since the starting
of its operation in 1999. The company
is also planning to operationalise its
two setallite gateways this month in Chennai
and Delhi. "We will use 60 percent
of the total 45 mb setallite bandwidth
for our own use-mainly for our network
of 300 servers - and 30 leased line connections
while the remaining would be for selling
tothe third party users like ISPs and
corporates".
Times
Of India, 10 Sep 2025
Net 4 India has drawn up
a Rs. 35 crore investment plan
Internet
Infrastructure and services company, Net4india,
has drawn up a Rs. 35 crore investment
plan for over the next 18 months for its
expansion. As of now the company's total
investment stands at Rs. 40 crore since
the starting of its operation in 1999.
The company is also planning to operationalise
its two satellite gateways this month
in Chennai and Delhi.
The
Financial Express, 30
Apr , 2001 Net4India named
the first ‘Keyword Registrar’ in India
by RealNames Corporation
Delhi-based Net4India was
recently named the first ‘Keyword Registrar’
in India by RealNames Corporation. As
a result of this tie-up, Net4India will
sell the Internet keywords to Indian businesses.
In a conversation with Shalini Dagar of
the eFE, Iqbal Gandham, co-founder and
chief technology officer (CTO), Net4India
explains the concept of Internet keywords
and its advantages.
What
are Internet keywords?
Internet keywords are a new layer on top
of the Domain Name System (DNS) which
enables the user to go to just that page
that the user requires in the hundreds
of pages on the Website. It is in fact
a new way of looking up information on
the net. Internet keywords are largely
used for accessing information on particular
company/product/brand.
When and how did the concept emerge?
The concept emerged almost 18-24 months
ago. RealNames Global Registry Services
supports the infrastructure of the Keyword
system and maintains the repository of
Keyword and customer data worldwide. The
Keyword Registration Platform is licensed
to country Registries by RealNames.
What are the advantages of using the Internet
keywords?
Internet keywords provide multiple entrances
or front doors to your Website. With the
help of keywords a company can direct
the consumer directly to that Web page
which he wants. Further, the keywords
provide a means of linking the brand to
the actual site of the company.
For example, the keyword “Alto” will have
the potential to take the browser directly
to that page on Maruti’s Website which
contains information on Alto. With every
extra click one could lose potential customers.
Keywords will help in reducing the number
of those clicks.
What is the cost of registering an Internet
keyword?
Realnames registers these Internet keywords
at $40-50 per annum in the US. Here in
India, keeping in mind the price-sensitive
market that India is, we will be pegging
it at somewhere close to $40. Though the
final price is yet to be decided.
What is the market that you expect for
Internet keywords?
Worldwide, the market for Internet keywords
could well exceed $500 million in four
years time. In India, currently, there
are over 80,000-100,000 domain names.
We expect the potential market for Internet
keywords to be at least two-three times
this number. Normally, a particular company
has one domain name and probably 50-60
products/brands. This concept of keywords
makes it possible for the company to register
the brands separately. In fact, the company
could register the slogan of its currently
running marketing and advertising campaign
also. I would be very happy if we are
able to register 30-50,000 Internet keywords
by Mar 2002.
On what kind of a system can you use Internet
keywords?
Internet keywords can be used only on
Internet Explorer (IE) Version 4 and above.
In IE, the language settings have to be
to set to India, as Internet keywords
is a country-specific concept.
When will this service be available?
The service would be available on Net4India’s
Website — www.net4domain.com — from the
second week of May, 2001.
ciol.com,
14 Apr 2025
Net4India
has been
named the first Keyword Registrar
in India by RealNames
HOW MANY times have you
keyed in your innocent query and...oops...the
search engine throws up a whole lot of
undesirable links? Approximately 80 to
90% people know what they are looking
for on the web, but more than half usually
get lost somewhere between entering their
query and screening all the links.
The solution–Keywords
and Net4India has been named the first
Keyword Registrar in India by RealNames,
the global infrastructure provider of
Keywords. Keywords are essentially tools
to get to your site much faster than a
search engine. With the use of keyword,
the problem of remembering long and complex
domain names or links can be reduced drastically,
all you had to do is type in a keyword
in you browser and get connected straight
to the required web page.
The
Keywords system works much like the Domain
Name System that retrieves web sites when
you type a URL or click a link or bookmark
the difference here being that with Internet
Keywords, you can use real words instead
of URLs. "Besides generating a new business
opportunity to registrars like Net4India,
keywords would definitely add to the Brand
usage for companies and products tremendously,"
feels Pankaj Sahni, Manager IT, Bacardi
Martini India. Niraj Ruparel, Manager
IT strategy, Maruti Udyog agrees, "It
would be a great help in defining an integrated
marketing campaign as there would be convergence
of the real brand names with those on
the Net." To
get a feel of how a Keyword would work
for your brand or product, try typing
‘Madonna’ or ‘Nike’ on your browser!
Business
Standard, 8 Mar, 2001 Net
4 India launches domain transfer package
NET4DOMAINS,
An Indian domain name registration company,
has announced a domain transfer package
which will allow the customer to transfer
names from more expensive domain registrars
to Net4Domains.
"Any user, who wants to change his
registrar to Net 4 India can now do so
by providing all the personal information
on our site at Net4Domains, after which
the user will be transferred to Net 4
India, while the ownerships still remain
with the registered user", Jasjit
Sawhney, CEO, Net 4 India, told Business
Standard. Net 4 India is planning to introduce
30 new country code top level domain names
(ccTLD) for increasing its marketshare
in the domain registration segment
Net4Domains is a part of Net 4 India,
an Internet Service Provider.
The
Economic Times - New Delhi, 7 Mar, 2001 Net 4 India
to introduce new domains
INTERNET
Service provider (ISP) Net 4 India is
planning to to introduce 30 new country
code top-level domain names (ccTLD) for
increasing its marketshare in the domain
registration segment.
Net4Domain, part of Net 4 India, has also
announced a domain transfer package which
allows the customers to transfer the names
from more expensive domain registrars
to Net4Domains.
According to Net 4 India, CEO, Jasjit
Sawhney, they are able to deliver this
package due to a strategic tie-up with
Bulkregister.com, the second largest domain
registration company in the world.
As per the scheme devised by Net 4 India,
the customer has to pay a one-time fee
of Rs. 650 to effect the transfer.
The
Economic Times - New Delhi, 7 Mar, 2001 Net
4 India plans 30 new country code domains
New
Delhi: Internet Service Provider (ISP),
Net 4 India is planning to introduce 30
new country code top-level domain names
(ccTLD) for increasing its marketshare
in the domain registration segment.
Net4Domain which is part of Net 4 India
- the largest domain registration company
- has also announced a domain transfer
package which allows the customers to
transfer the names from more expensive
domain registrars to Net4Domains. According
to Net 4 India, CEO, Jasjit Sawhney, they
are able to deliver this package due to
a strategic tie-up with Bulkregister.com,
the second largest domain registration
company in the world.
As per the scheme devised by Net 4 India,
the customer has to pay a one-time fee
of Rs. 650 to effect the transfer. Once
the transfer is effected he gets the balance
period remaining with the old registrar
plus one year at the above rates with
Net 4 India. The customer can subsequently
renew his domain the following year at
the rate charged by Net4domain.
The
Financial Express, 5 Feb 2026 Net
4 India on the lookout for strategic foreign
partnerships
New
Delhi: Net 4 India, an Internet service
provider, is looking for strategic foreign
partners for its data centre as well as
Web designing business. The company may
hive off its Web designing business into
a separate firm to accommodate the foreign
partner. While talking to The Financial
Express, the chief executive officer of
Net 4 India, Mr Jasjit Sawhney
said that the company was looking for
a partner to get access to technologies
as well as overseas clients. "We
are already associated with a few US-based
companies which are outsourcing Web designing
and development work to us. The discussions
are being held with a couple of them for
equity partnership in the business. The
mode and extent of partnership is being
discussed and if required we may will
hive off the design and development business
into a new joint venture," he said.
A similar partnership is being planned
for the data centre business. "We
are investing heavily in setting up data
centres across the country with a central
centre in Gurgaon.
A
strategic partnership with a US company
will provide us a brand name and technology
besides access to the foreign market for
our hosting services," said Mr Sawhney.
Mr Sawhney also said that the company
is expanding its networking and communication
service business into other parts of the
country. "We are already setting
up operations in South and East India
and also looking for acquiring a company
already operating in these markets. The
acquisition will give us an advantage
of reducing time to market and easy access
to clients," he said. "We are
talking to two or three companies and
are quite close to a deal. The new company
will become the part of group company
Net4Emarson which is already in this business.
The equity will be diluted in Nett4Emarson
by offering stake to the promoters of
acquired company," he added. Net
4 India has acquired majority holding
in Amarsons, after buying a 75 per cent
stake last year. The rest of the equity
is held by the original promoters who
are also responsible for running the day
to day business. The new acquired company
will also work on a similar business model.
Net 4 India is currently operating in
six cities and offering Internet access
as well as hosting services. The cities
include Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai,
Hyderabad and Pune. The company is now
launching operations in three more cities:
Calcutta, Ahemdabad and Chandigarh.
The
Financial Express, 24 Jan 2026
Net 4 India web hosting customer base
at 8,000
Net
4 India, the Internet service and solutions
provider for the sme's on tuesday announced
that it had achieved a customer base of
8,000 for their web hosting facility.
This makes net 4 india the largest web
hosting company in the country today.
Speaking on sp world, 2001, Mr Jasjit
Sawhney, CEO, Net 4 India said "in
the internet economy where demand for
bandwidth is accelerating and there is
a need for broadband access to become
increasingly pervasive."
The
Hindustan Times, 17 Dec, 2000
Net 4 India to focus on
SMEs plans net data centres
Net
4 Indias, india's leading internet services
and solutions company with a focus on
the small and medium enterprises (smes),
announced its plans to set up internet
data centers in calcutta, chandigarh,
ahmedabad and gurgaon within the next
financial year. The company plans to invest
rs 100 crore in setting up these internet
data centers to offer world class web
hosting, server co-location and application
hosting and managed server facilities
to the small and medium businesses in
india. With this latest initiative, Net
4 India will become india's largest web
hosting company with 10 data centers covering
approximately 75,000 square feet of idc
space across the country the data centers
would offer a range of hosting capabilities
from basic web hosting and server co-location
services to second generation hosting
like web, applications hosting and managed
server facility which can offer greater
reliability and faster development of
e-business solutions. Net 4 India presently
has data centers in delhi, mumbai banglore,
hyderabad, pune and chennai. The company
has certified administrators and professionals
to manage internet systems for peak performance
day, seven days a week. Net 4 Indias state
of the art facilities are custom designed
with the widest range of physical security
features,24x7x365 monitoring, infrastructure-like
climate control,backup power and redundant
subsystems. We are creating a national
network for internet data centers, with
a target of becoming a leader in e-commerce
services.
The
Economic Times, 16 Dec, 2000 Net
4 India eyes west Asia, UK
Net
4 India ,the internet arm of the uk-based
sawhney group, is expanding to west asia,uk
and southeast asia .the company has decided
to set up its office in dubai for middle-east
operations, which will be fully operational
by Mar.Net 4 India will take the alliances
route for the south_east asian market
and will be targeting korea,singapur,malaysiaand
japan." About 10 per cent of our
revenues will come from the international
business within the first year ,"
saya jasjit sawhney, chief executive officer
,Net 4 India.in england,where it has already
set up an office,the company is eyeing
web development and consultancy business.
In south east asia the company is banking
in korea for a major chunk of business,thanks
to high penetration of internet."It
is a tricky market.the competition is
tough and rates low,but growth rates are
higher than anywhere else in the world
,"says jasjit sawhney.major revenue
earner from middle-east is expected to
be network and systems integration.finding
the web solutions market to quite fragmented
in middle east ,they expect the company
to command 180 per cent higher prices
in india.in the domastic market the company
is on expantion binge too.Net 4 India
has recently ventured into networking
and system integration business and has
started offering managed service for server
co-location.the company has also tied
up with bulkregister.com, worlds second
largest domain registrar,to become its
sole bulk-distributor. Having set up server
farms in the six cities,the company is
setting up 4 more data centers.
The
Financial Express (EFE), 30 Nov 2025 Net
4 India, BulkRegister forge alliance
New
Delhi : Internet services and solutions
company Net 4 India announced on Wednesday
its partnership with BulkRegister.com,
world's second largest domain registrar.
Under the partnership, Net 4 India will
become the sole bulk-distributor for BulkRegister.com
in India and the APAC region (excluding
China) and both will work on multi-lingual
platform (initially Hindi and Tamil).
"The partnership is expected to make
domain registration company www.net4domains.com,
a subsidiary of Net 4 India, a partner
with the biggest market share in the APAC
region.'' Says Mr Jasjit S Sawhney,
CEO, Net 4 India: "Though
the domain name registration business
gives us very marginal returns, yet it
gives boost to other verticals - it has
helped us secure customers for over 75
per cent of 12,000 Web sites we've hosted
so far.'' BulkRegister.com, which entered
the domain market name in Dec 1999, has
registered around 2 million domain names.
Business
Standard, 17 Nov, 2000
Net 4 India to invest Rs.
100 crore in data centre infrastructure
Delhi
based internet service provider (isp)
Net 4 India,a part of the uk based sawhney
group, has lined up investments to the
tune of rs 100 crore to set up infrastructure
for internet data centers (idcs) in four
cities including calcutta, chandigrh,
ahmedabad and gurgaon, in the next financial
year. The company is raising the money
from group companies as well as from internal
accruals." A substantial part of
the money will be raised through the equity
route from the group companies and partly
from internal accruals ''Jasjit Sawhney
, CEO , Net 4 India said. The company
will be investing about rs 50 crore in
the existing idc for sprucing up the infrastructure
while the rest would be invested in setting
up the new data centers. These data centers
will offer various internet services,
including web hosting ,server co-location
and application hosting and managed server
facilities to small and medium businesses
in india. With the initiatives, Net 4
India will have total 10 data centers
covering approximately 75,000 square feet
of idc space across the country. These
data centers would offer a range of hosting
capabilities from basic web hosting an
server co-location servers to second generations
hosting like web application hosting and
managed server facility targeted at e-businesses.Net
4 India currently has data centers in
delhi, mumbai, banglore, hyderabad, pune
and chennai. Announcing the company's
plans jasjit sawhney said "we are
creating a national network of internet
data centers with the goal of becoming
a leader in world class internet application
hosting and e-commerce services we already
have nearly 10,000 web-hosting customers
and we will continue to lead the web-hosting
market by combining our extensive data
center network with our professionally
managed services." Besides, server
firms the other facilities offered by
Net 4 India include domain name registration,
web-hosting services, website designing
and consultancy to small and medium business.Net
4 India has a customer base of over 1,00,000
across all its services. "our primary
audience is the small and medium enterprises
(smes) and we want to extend our services
beyond the boundaries of the major metros,
"he added.
