Egypt Applies for First Non-Roman Web Domain

SOA & WOA Magazine on Ulitzer

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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