The colloquial Egyptian domain name (meaning "Egypt",

romanized Romanization or romanisation, in linguistics, is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so. Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written text, and ...

as masr) is the

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(IDN ccTLD) in the

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(DNS) of the

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for

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Medi ...

.First IDN ccTLDs available

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announcement, 2010-05-05'' 'Historic' day as first non-latin web addresses go live''
BBC, 6 May 2010. Its

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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. Egypt's traditional

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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 The 2011 Egyptian revolution, also known as the 25 January revolution ( ar, ثورة ٢٥ يناير; ), began on 25 January 2011 and spread across Egypt. The date was set by various youth groups to coincide with the annual Egyptian "Police ho ...

, a website for a referendum was set up using this domain

— literally, referendum fegypt).

References

External links

Dot Masr
Al-Ahram Weekly On-line, 13–19 May 2010
Net milestone: Egypt gets first Arabic domain name

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, May 7, 2010
Egypt business: Arabic domain name soon a reality
1 March 2010 Country code top-level domains {{Egypt-stub

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