Masr (domain name)

مصر

Introduced	2010
TLD type	Internationalized country code top-level domain
Status	Active
Registry	TE Data, InTouch, Vodafone Data and the Egyptian Universities Network (EUN) [1]
Intended use	Entities connected with  Egypt
Actual use	Starting. First site is موقع.وزارة-الاتصالات.مصر
DNS name	xn--wgbh1c
Website	http://www.dotmasr.eg/

The Arabic domain name مصر (meaning "Egypt", 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 (استفتاء.مصر — literally, referendumof.egypt).

See also

• Top-level domain
• Punycode

References

1. ^ NTRA, Three Egyptian Companies Selected for Domain Name Registration Services under the Arabic Country Code Top Level Domain of Egypt “مصر.”
2. ^ Two New Licenses for (.masr) Domain Name Registration to Be Launched
3. ^ ^{a b} First IDN ccTLDs available, ICANN announcement, 2010-05-05
4. ^ 'Historic' day as first non-latin web addresses go live, BBC, 6 May 2010.

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