Masr (domain name)

مصر (lit. 'Egypt', romanized as masr^[2]) is the internationalized country code top-level domain (IDN ccTLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet for Egypt.^[3]^[4] Its ASCII DNS name is xn--wgbh1c, obtained by the Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) transcription method.

مصر
Introduced	2010
TLD type	Internationalized country code top-level domain
Status	Active
Registry	TE Data, InTouch, Vodafone Data and the Egyptian Universities Network (EUN)^[1]
Intended use	Entities connected with Egypt
Actual use	Limited use in Egypt. First site is موقع.وزارة-الاتصالات.مصر
Dispute policies	Dispute Resolution^{[dead link]}
DNS name	xn--wgbh1c
Registry website	www.dotmasr.eg^{[dead link]}

The domain was one of the first IDN ccTLDs installed in the DNS on 5 May 2010.^[3]

Egypt's traditional ccTLD 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, a website for a referendum was set up using this domain ( — literally, referendum[of].egypt).

References edit

^ NTRA, Three Egyptian Companies Selected for Domain Name Registration Services under the Arabic Country Code Top Level Domain of Egypt “مصر.”
^ Two New Licenses for (.masr) Domain Name Registration to Be Launched
^ ^a ^b First IDN ccTLDs available, ICANN announcement, 2010-05-05
^ 'Historic' day as first non-latin web addresses go live, BBC, 6 May 2010.

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