.io.in Domain Registration India

.io.in is a zone inside India’s .in country code, run by the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), where you register names such as apilab.io.in. It is not related to .io, which is the separate country code of the British Indian Ocean Territory with its own registry and prices.

The appeal is borrowed shorthand: developers read “io” as input/output and associate it with tech products, while the “.in” ending places the product in India. Because the zone belongs to NIXI, every rule on this page comes from the .IN Registry’s own published policy rather than a private operator.

WebJi® lists .io.in at ₹809 for the first year and ₹877 a year to renew, before 18% GST, as read from billing on 4 November 2026. NIXI publishes a wholesale rate of ₹400 per domain-year for third-level .in names and lets each registrar set its own retail price.

For budgeting, year one plus two renewal years at today’s listed rates is ₹2,563 before tax. A prepaid multi-year order is priced by checkout, so treat that figure as an estimate. The real .io, for comparison, is listed at ₹2,800–3,800 for year one on its own page.

A .io.in name cannot change registrar in its first 60 days, and each completed registrar transfer adds one year to its term. After that window, request the authorisation code from the current registrar and start the move through domain transfer.

Keep auto-renew on and the registrant mailbox active, since KYC and renewal notices go there. When the project grows into a company, many teams keep the .io.in address as a redirect and move the main site to a .in or .com name of the same brand, as covered in redirecting one domain to another.