The Saudi Network Information Center, abbreviated SaudiNIC is the

Country code top-level domain A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory identified with a country code. All ASCII ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, and all t ...

registry for the domain name space — under (.sa and السعودية.) — for

Saudi Arabia 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 A ...

. The SaudiNIC mandate includes the operation of the

DNS root server A root name server is a name server for the root zone of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. It directly answers requests for records in the root zone and answers other requests by returning a list of the authoritative name servers fo ...

s for the local domain space as well as all the registry services including the registration services and technical support. From its inception in 1995 until late 2006 SaudiNIC was managed and operated by the

King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST; ar, مدينة الملك عبدالعزيز للعلوم والتقنية) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is an organization established in 1977 as the Saudi Arabian National Center for Science & ...

. The task of operating SaudiNIC was transferred by ministerial direction to a

statutory corporation A statutory corporation is a government entity created as a statutory body by statute. Their precise nature varies by jurisdiction, thus, they are statutes owned by a government or controlled by national or sub-national government to the (in ...

, the

Communications and Information Technology Commission The Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC; ar, هيئة الاتصالات وتقنية المعلومات, Hai'at al-Ittisalat wa Tiqniyyat al-Ma`lumat) is the Saudi communications authority. It was first established under ...

References

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External links

SaudiNIC website

CITC website

Internet.gov.sa website

Internet in Saudi Arabia Domain name registries