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| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| What DataMail is | A free email service whose addresses can be written in the user's own script, described as the world's first linguistic email service | ICANN UASG case study 013D |
| Launched | October 2016, after a two-year build that began with the Government of India's 2014 announcement of linguistic domain names | The Better India, 2016 |
| Languages at launch | 8 Indian languages | Same |
| Languages today | 16 languages, 22 scripts, alongside English | DataMail, languages page |
| Price | Free for individuals; storage is ad-supported and unlimited | DataMail, Why DataMail |
| Where IDs are created | Only in the iOS or Android app; webmail at mail.datamail.in is for signing in | DataMail, app page |
| Android rating | 4.3 stars from 2.9K+ reviews, 100K+ installs | Google Play listing |
| Standards used | IDN (RFC 5890 to 5894) for the domain, EAI (RFC 6530 to 6533) for the whole address | Glossary with RFC links |
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Owner | Data Xgen Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Jaipur, Rajasthan, part of Data Group of Industries | datagroup.in |
| Company founded | 2010 | Company records. Data Infosys, the earlier ISP, dates from 1999; DataMail from 2016. Three different dates. |
| Platform | XgenPlus, the enterprise email server DataMail runs on | xgenplus.com |
| Mailboxes secured | 50M+, platform-wide across all XgenPlus products. Not a DataMail user count. | XgenPlus |
| Certifications | ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 20000-1, CMMI Level 3, Class A ISP License (DoT, Government of India) | Held by Data Ingenious Global Limited, the technology parent Data Xgen Technologies operates under; data.in awards page |
| Industry recognition | Named by Microsoft among four UASG member companies worldwide when Microsoft announced support for Indian-language email addresses | Microsoft News India, Feb 2018 |
| First state deployment | Rajasthan was reported as the first Indian state to offer residents a Hindi email ID, written in Devanagari at the राजस्थान.भारत domain, in December 2017, on the same platform. Reported by Hindustan Times; the archive is paywalled | Hindustan Times, Dec 2017 |
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Name and role | Dr. Ajay Data, Founder & CEO, Data Xgen Technologies | Wikipedia, ICANNWiki |
| Co-Chair, ICANN Neo-Brahmi Generation Panel | Writing Root Zone Label Generation Rules, and the variant rules that prevent look-alike-script domain fraud, for Devanagari, Bengali, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Oriya. | ICANN records; ICANNWiki |
| First Asian Chair, ICANN Universal Acceptance Steering Group | 2019–23. Set the global agenda for Internationalized Domain Names and Email Address Internationalization (EAI). | ICANN records; ICANNWiki |
| Former Member, ICANN ccNSO Council, Asia-Pacific | 2018–20. First Indian appointed to the seat. | ICANN records; ICANNWiki |
| Server acceptance of local-script addresses | Less than 10% of the world's email servers accept a local-language address. | Dr. Ajay Data, UASG interview (InternetX) |
| Book | Zenith: Mastering AI for Everyday Life and Work, Rupa Publications, 2025 | Amazon.in |
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