Masr (domain name)

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)
Intended use	Entities connected with Egypt
Actual use	Limited use in Egypt. First site is موقع.وزارة-الاتصالات.مصر
Dispute policies	Dispute Resolution
DNS name	xn--wgbh1c
Registry website	www.dotmasr.eg[dead link]

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.

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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 (استفتاء.مصر — literally, referendum[of].egypt).

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