.eg is the
Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet or Roman alphabet is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European ...
country code top-level domain
A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It ...
(ccTLD) for
Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning the North Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via a land bridg ...
. Any entity who wants to register a domain name ending with
.eg must have a local representative or the domain name has to be hosted on Egyptian
DNS servers. Egypt's
Arabic alphabet ccTLD is
.مصر.
'' 'Historic' day as first non-latin web addresses go live''
BBC, 6 May 2010.
Second-level domains
There are eleven second-level domains. Registrations are possible at the second level (directly under .eg) or at the third level beneath these names.
* .ac.eg: Academic sites.
* .com.eg: Commercial sites.
* .edu.eg: Educational sites.
* .eun.eg: Egyptian Universities Network.
* .gov.eg: Governmental sites.
* .info.eg: Information sector.
* .mil.eg: Military sites.
* .name.eg: Personal "name" websites.
* .net.eg: Networking.
* .org.eg: Egyptian organizations.
* .sci.eg: Scientific sites.
* .sport.eg: Sports sites.
* .tv.eg: Visual media.
References
External links
IANA .eg whois information
Country code top-level domains
Mass media in Egypt
Internet in Egypt
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