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Egypt Applies for First Non-Roman Web Domain

Egypt became the first country to request a web address in Arabic script
By Maureen O'Gara
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November 20, 2009 02:00 PM EST
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Now that ICANN has relaxed its rules on domain names in non-Roman characters, Egypt Monday became the first country to request a web address in Arabic script. .Egypt will be .masr but in Arabic script. The move is meant to open the Internet to all the folks largely in emerging markets who speak languages written in a non-Roman script such as Chinese and Korean.

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