Egypt will open the world’s first Arabic language internet domain, its communications minister has said.
Tarek Kamel said the new domain name would be “.masr” written in the Arabic alphabet. It translates as “.Egypt”.
“It is a great moment for us… The internet now speaks Arabic,” Mr Kamel said.
16 November 2009, ICANN is pleased to announce the launch of the IDN ccTLD Track Process.
Non-English speakers across the globe will soon have access to the Internet addresses completely in their own lanuage. The Internet Corportation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization charged with overseeing the Internet’s naming and numbering systems, is today launching a process for delegating a number of internationalized top-level domains.
If you own a brand and want to really protect it online, a basic action would require you to buy more than 250 domain names.
280 is indeed the number of domain extensions in total:
So to be sure that no one can buy you brand name online, you need to register 268 domains. And then you might need to consider some common typos and hyphen versions and key product names.
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