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And now,
domain names in Arabic
Monday, September 27, 2010 12:55:40 PM,
ummid.com Staff Reporter
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Malegaon:
Crossing yet another important milestone in Information
Technology, the Saudi Network Information Center (SaudiNIC) has
decided to register domain names in Arabic. The centre will
formally begin the registration process from September 27.
“The registration will be open for
any entity or individual on a first-come-first-served basis,”
Arab News quoted Communications and Information Technology
Commission as saying.
“The rush will start at 10
a.m. on Monday,” added the CITC the Saudi telecom regulator.
Arabic domain names is the equivalent of other domain names but
written in Arabic characters and intended to be used in exactly
the same way regular domain names are used, specially in Web
browsing.
“Arabic domain names fall into a bigger category of domain names
called IDN which stands for Internationalized Domain Names,” said
the CITC.
IDNs are domain names that include
characters used in the local representation of languages that
contain one or more characters other than the 26 letters of the
basic Latin alphabet.
Sultan Al-Malik, spokesman of the CITC, said the Arabic domain
names would increase the use of the Internet by Saudis. SaudiNIC
is a nonprofit entity in charge of administering the domain name
space under (.sa).
The qualified registrants in the first phase are any entity or
individual who has a registered trade name or mark with the Saudi
Ministry of Commerce and Industry, including all governmental or
semi-governmental authorities and organizations.
A typical .sa domain name consists of two or three parts separated
by (.) and looks like .sa or ..sa or .in for India, .pk for
Pakistan and likewise .uk for United Kingdom.
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