 This change was announced via an executive order through a gazette notification issued by the Department of Information Technology (DIT), Government of India, according to a legal status to the INRegistry.This announcement also mentioned the role of the National Informatics Centre (NIC) as the registrar for gov.in domains, ERNET as the registrar for res.in and ac.in domains, and the Ministry of Defence as the registrar for mil.in domains.INRegistry does not carry out registrations itself.