Masr (domain name) explained

مصر
Background:	CCF
Introduced:	2010
Type:	Internationalized country code top-level domain
Status:	Active
Registry:	TE Data, InTouch, Vodafone Data and the Egyptian Universities Network (EUN)^[1]
Intendeduse:	Entities connected with
Actualuse:	Limited use in Egypt. First site is
Disputepolicy:	Dispute Resolution
Dnsname:	xn--wgbh1c

مصر (romanized as masr^[2]) is the internationalized country code top-level domain (IDN ccTLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet for Egypt.^{[3] [4]} Its ASCII DNS name is xn--wgbh1c, obtained by the Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) transcription method.

The domain was one of the first IDN ccTLDs installed in the DNS on 5 May 2010.^[3]

Egypt's traditional ccTLD is [[.eg]].

The first website of this top-level domain was a site of the Egyptian Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. After the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, a website for a referendum was set up using this domain (Arabic: استفتاء.مصر — literally, referendum[of].egypt).

See also

• Top-level domain
• Punycode

External links

• Dot Masr, Al-Ahram Weekly On-line, 13–19 May 2010
• Net milestone: Egypt gets first Arabic domain name, The Times of India, May 7, 2010
• Egypt business: Arabic domain name soon a reality, 1 March 2010

Notes and References

1. NTRA, Three Egyptian Companies Selected for Domain Name Registration Services under the Arabic Country Code Top Level Domain of Egypt “Arabic: مصر.”
2. http://www.mcit.gov.eg/NewsDetails.aspx?id=VqEE0wUyuy4= Two New Licenses for (.masr) Domain Name Registration to Be Launched
3. http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-05may10-en.htm First IDN ccTLDs available
4. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10100108.stm 'Historic' day as first non-latin web addresses go live