Built because the internet wasn't asking the right question.
Most email products ask "how do we make this faster." DataMail started by asking why hundreds of millions of Indians couldn't have an email address in their own language at all.
Data Xgen Technologies and the XgenPlus platform were founded in 2010, a separate, later entity from Data Infosys (now Data Ingenious Global Limited), which Dr. Ajay Data founded and launched services under in 1999 as Rajasthan's first private ISP. DataMail itself is a 2016 product built on the XgenPlus platform. Three different dates, none of them interchangeable.
Dr. Ajay Data founds Data Infosys, now Data Ingenious Global Limited, as Rajasthan's first private ISP. A different, earlier entity from Data Xgen Technologies below, but the start of the same mission.
Data Xgen Technologies and the XgenPlus platform are founded. Dr. Ajay Data personally architects the mail server: IMAP, SMTP, POP, anti-spam gateway, webmail, the full protocol stack, not a managed layer on top of someone else's infrastructure.
The Government of India announces linguistic domain names in Indian languages, the spark for what becomes DataMail.
Two years building the underlying IDN/EAI technology to make a native-script address actually deliverable, not just displayable.
DataMail launches: free email addresses in 8 Indian languages, covered by The Better India, Deccan Chronicle and The Economic Times, and described at the time as one of the world's first linguistic email services.
Microsoft's own press release on Indian-language email support names XgenPlus among just four UASG member companies worldwide, the only Indian company on the list.
Dr. Ajay Data serves as the first Asian Chair of ICANN's Universal Acceptance Steering Group, setting the global agenda that DataMail's addressing runs on.
Kannada-language addressing added, continuing to expand language coverage.
AI Compose launches, bringing AI-assisted drafting to every supported language.
16 languages, 22 scripts, free, ad-supported unlimited storage.
DataMail exists because its founder spent his career on a single, specific problem: making the internet's address system actually work in languages other than English.
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