A new dimension is unfolding online for Arab internet users with the addition of Arab domain names such as .emarat after two decades of English as the only language, said the man at the helm of the international organisation
that keeps the internet working.
Rod Beckstrom, president and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), said in an exclusive interview with Gulf News at Gitex yesterday that companies and community groups in the UAE can now apply for personal generic top level domains (gTLDs) in Arabic as well.
Major corporations such as Emaar, for example, or government agencies such as the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority could, in theory, file an application to Icann in January to replace .com or .net suffixes on the internet with .emaar or .tra.
Source and more Arabic Domain
Actual applicants won’t be known until the applications process opens in January and continues until April 12.
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