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A great tool for domain harvesters. I expect all meaningful .in domains to exhaust in a few months giving way to black market.
by subbu 15y ago
A great tool for domain harvesters. I expect all meaningful .in domains to exhaust in a few months giving way to black market.
- singh 15y agoIt 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_account_number
- anujkk 15y agoYeah, they are asking for unique PAN(Permanent Account Number) issued by Income Tax department, Government of India. However, I don't know if PAN issued to individuals will work here. The fourth letter of PAN identifies the type of entity PAN is issued for. For example, my PAN is APUPK3*M. C — Company P — Person H — HUF(Hindu Undivided Family) F — Firm A — Association of Persons (AOP) T — AOP (Trust) B — Body of Individuals (BOI) L — Local Authority J — Artificial Juridical Person G — Government I guess they will check PAN to identify if it is "a business entity operating from India".
- BuddhaSource 15y agoCan PAN card be verified using API? If so then who all can get access to that? Its impossible to verify otherwise.
- srik 15y agoPartners 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.
- esrauch 15y agoAre they like SSNs in that they are dangerous information to give out? The grandparent post just wrote his in the comment and doesn't seem to concerned.
- goatcurious 15y agogiven the volumes, would not be too hard to do a manual verification with a 2-3 day turnaround
- nishantmodak 15y agohttps://www.tin-nsdl.com/pan-verify/pan-verification-overview.php 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
- subbu 15y agoThey 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.
- qeorge 15y agoSeems like a lot of work to save $15 reg fee.