Egypt has taken a leap forward in the world of the Internets this week by applying to register the first all-Arabic domain name. Egypt’s information technology minister, Tarek Kamel says the measure will make the Internet accessible to the millions in the region who are unable to access an Internet dominated by Latin characters, so this is indeed a huge advancement.
The application was sent in on the very first day that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an Internet oversight agency, opened the door for registering non-Latin script domains. So far six countries have submitted applications for domains in three languages.
The Egyptian government has filed an application to register the domain “.masr”, written entirely in Arabic. This name means “.Egypt”.
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El-Sheik, S. (2009). Egypt Applies for First Arabic Domain Name. In The Times of India, 16 Nov 2009.
The application was sent in on the very first day that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an Internet oversight agency, opened the door for registering non-Latin script domains. So far six countries have submitted applications for domains in three languages.
The Egyptian government has filed an application to register the domain “.masr”, written entirely in Arabic. This name means “.Egypt”.
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El-Sheik, S. (2009). Egypt Applies for First Arabic Domain Name. In The Times of India, 16 Nov 2009.
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