Direct is an internet domain registrar

Domain name registrar

A domain name registrar is an organization or commercial entity, accredited by both ICANN and generic top-level domain registry to sell gTLDs and/or by a country code top-level domain registry to sell ccTLDs; to manage the reservation of Internet domain names in accordance with the guidelines of...

 and web hosting company, and was the first ICANN

ICANN

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is a non-profit corporation headquartered in Marina del Rey, California, United States, that was created on September 18, 1998, and incorporated on September 30, 1998 to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed directly...

-accredited registrar in India. Directi was started by Bhavin Turakhia

Bhavin Turakhia

Bhavin Turakhia is an Indian Internet entrepreneur, CEO and Founder of Directi, a web products company he started in 1998. Directi is a technology conglomerate and the parent company of ResellerClub, LogicBoxes, Skenzo, CodeChef,. pw and WebHosting.info.Turakhia is responsible for the vision,...

 and his brother Divyank Turakhia

Divyank Turakhia

Divyank Turakhia is a serial entrepreneur. Turakhia started his first internet business in 1996 at the age of 14. He co-founded the Directi Group in 1998 as a 2 people start-up with $600 and became a millionaire at age 18. His net-worth today stands at over $300 million.-Notes:...

 in 1998. Bhavin's official designation is Founder & CEO while Divyank is the Co-founder & President of the company.

Directi currently has over five hundred employees, and has several other business units including ResellerClub and LogicBoxes. Their products include communication and collaboration applications, social networking software, instant messaging software, context analysis engines, antispam and antivirus Solutions, large scale billing and provisioning platforms, traffic monetization solutions, online advertising solutions, DNS management products, Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 and Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 server management software and web hosting control panels.

The various business units are:

• LogicBoxes
  LogicBoxes
  LogicBoxes is a web products and consulting company that specializes in providing private labeled, web presence and communication applications to ICANN Registrars, Large Web Hosts, Domain Resellers, ISPs and Telcos...
  
  
• ResellerClub
• WebHosting.Info
• Skenzo
• Talk.to
• BigRock
• CodeChef

Directi is located in the Indian city of Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

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