Arabic Domain names

Arabic Domain Names

Since the Internet was originally evolved in the United Sates, it supported only 7-bit ASCII code (English characters), and the Domain name System (DNS) supports alphabets, numbers and hyphen of the ASCII code.

The activity of supporting multilingual characters in domain names is becoming very important now along other Internet internationalization to make the Internet globally accessible and become ubiquitous.

Therefore, using the Arabic language to express Internet domain names is becoming also important and a number of solutions and implementations have been introduced in the market but based on non-open standards.

Also, there is some non-for-profit international organizations that are trying to promote the multilingual issues and standards on the Internet.

After the second meting of the Arab teem for Arabic domain names the participants had agreed on extending the GCC pilot project to include all the Arab countries.

The list of participated countries in the Arabic domain name pilot project .

important documents :

How can you participate in the project ?

Guidelines for an Arabic Domain Name System
Internet draft

Arabic Domain Names Pilot Project
Implementation Experiences of idn.idn
(ICANN meeting , November 30 - December 4 in Vancouver, Canada)