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AlSaudiah
Internationalized country code top-level domain for Saudi Arabia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Arabic name السعودية, romanized as AlSaudiah,[3] is the Internationalized country code top-level domain for Saudi Arabia.[4]
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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.[4][5]
Government organizations were able to register the domain name for the first time from 31 May 2010 to 12 July 2010,[1][3] followed by a public launch a few months later. By 2013, 1,939 AlSaudiah domain names were registered.[6]
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AlSaudiah (السعودية[3]) is the Internationalized country code top-level domain for Saudi Arabia. Only persons or entities related to Saudi Arabia are able to register.[citation needed] The top-level domain is managed by the Saudi Network Information Center (SaudiNIC).[6]
The ASCII 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 Unicode representation of the script version.
Saudi Arabia is also assigned the country code top-level domain .sa.
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