| .sa | |
| Introduced: | 17 May 1994 |
| Type: | Country code top-level domain |
| Status: | Active |
| Registry: | Communications and Information Technology Commission (SaudiNIC Unit) |
| Sponsor: | Communications and Information Technology Commission |
| Intendeduse: | Entities connected with |
| Actualuse: | Gets some use in Saudi Arabia |
| Registereddomains: | 54,330 |
| Dateregistereddomains: | 21 August 2023 |
| Refregistereddomains: | [1] |
| Restrictions: | Must have Saudi presence, a local representative, or trademark registered in Saudi Arabia; must show legal papers verifying identity |
| Structure: | Second level domains registration is available under (.sa) and (.السعودية), the third level domains registration is available beneath various second-level labels |
| Document: | Rules |
| Website: | SaudiNIC |
.sa is the Latin alphabet Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of Saudi Arabia. Domains of this type can be registered through SaudiNIC, a department of the Communications and Information Technology Commission. The Arabic alphabet ccTLD of Saudi Arabia is السعودية.
The top-level domain was managed by the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology from 1995 to 2006. It was then transferred to Saudi Network Information Center (SaudiNIC).[2]
As of 21 August 2023, 54,330 domain names were registered.[1]
The second-level domains that are officially open to third-level registrations are:
Saudi Arabia was one of the first countries to apply for the new internationalized domain name (IDN) country code top-level domains authorized by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in 2009. In January 2010, ICANN announced that the Saudi IDN ccTLD (xn--mgberp4a5d4ar, السعودية) one of the first four new IDN ccTLDs to have passed the Fast Track String Evaluation within the domain application process.[3]