The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For web hosting activities, that activity is 63112.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
63112 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for web hosting activities: a sub-class of class 6311, data processing, hosting and related activities, within division 63, information service activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 63Group 631Class 6311Sub-class 63112
Web hosting activities
Sub-class 63112 · Class 6311 · Group 631 · Division 63 · Section J, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
631125 digits: 63 + 1 + 1 + 2NIC 2025 · Notice dated 16 October 2026
On 18 November 2025 the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released NIC 2025, which uses 6-digit codes aligned with the UN's ISIC Revision 5. This page shows the NIC 2008 code 63112. The matching NIC 2025 code will be added here once it is mapped from MoSPI's official concordance.
How to read it
An NIC code is built in layers. Each digit narrows the one before it: the division, the group, the class, and finally the 5-digit sub-class. Divisions themselves are grouped under lettered sections.
The broadest numbered layer. Division 63 covers information service activities. It sits in section J, information and communication.
Data processing, hosting and related activities; web portals.
Data processing, hosting and related activities.
Web hosting activities. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 63112 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For web hosting activities, that activity is 63112.
The company incorporation form asks for the main industrial activity of the proposed company by NIC code.
Not GST. GST registration does not use NIC codes; goods and services there are classified by HSN and SAC codes.
Choosing the right code
63112 is for web hosting activities. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 6311. Each has its own page with the official wording.
63114Class 6311 · another sub-class of the same class63119Class 6311 · another sub-class of the same class63111Class 6311 · another sub-class of the same classClass 6311 has 5 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 63112. 3 of the others are shown here.
Questions
Web hosting activities, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 6311, data processing, hosting and related activities.
Class 6311, data processing, hosting and related activities, has 5 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 63112, those with a page here are: 63114 (Providing data entry services); 63119 (Other data processing, hosting and related activities n.e.c.); 63111 (Data processing activities including report writing).
In Udyam Registration, which asks for the business activity by NIC code, and in the SPICe+ company incorporation form, which asks for the main industrial activity by NIC code. GST registration does not use NIC codes.
About this page
The section, division, group, class and sub-class on this page are taken word for word from the official document “National Industrial Classification (All Economic Activities) 2008”, Central Statistical Organisation, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India.
This is reference information on the classification of a business activity. It is not advice on which code your own business should declare, and the official NIC document prevails if the two ever differ. A change in the classification, including the MoSPI concordance to NIC 2025, re-opens this page for checking.
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