The Arabic name , romanized as AlSaudiah,Alert 360 - UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt - Non-Latin Domain Names Accepted
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History

The top-level domain was installed in the DNS on May 5, 2010. It was among the first non-Latin top-level domains to ever go live. Government organizations were able to register the domain name for the first time from 31 May 2010 to 12 July 2010, followed by a public launch a few months later. By 2013, 1,939 AlSaudiah domain names were registered.

Description

AlSaudiah () is the Internationalized country code top-level domain for Saudi Arabia. Only persons or entities related to Saudi Arabia are able to register. The top-level domain is managed by the Saudi Network Information Center (SaudiNIC). The ASCII name of this domain in the Domain Name System is xn--mgberp4a5d4ar, obtained by application of the Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) rules for the translation of the Unicode representation of the script version. Saudi Arabia is also assigned the country code top-level domain

.sa .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 ccT ...

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السعودية Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the Arab ...

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