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name , romanized as AlSaudiah,Alert 360 - UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt - Non-Latin Domain Names Accepted
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Internationalized country code top-level domain An internationalized country code top-level domain is a top-level domain in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. IDN ccTLDs are specially encoded domain names that are displayed in an end user application, such as a web browser, in the ...

for

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia. Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about , making it the List of Asian countries ...

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, 6 May 2010.

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

for

. 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 ASCII ( ), an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for representing a particular set of 95 (English language focused) printable character, printable and 33 control character, control c ...

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

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representation of the script version. Saudi Arabia is also assigned the country code top-level domain .sa.

References

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History

Description

See also

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