{"id":47,"date":"2009-11-17T04:10:53","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T04:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.above.com\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2013-10-17T20:55:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T09:55:59","slug":"egypt-launches-arabic-web-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.above.com\/blog\/egypt-launches-arabic-web-domain","title":{"rendered":"Egypt launches Arabic web domain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"DISPLAY: inline\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; FLOAT: left\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"egyptflag.png\" src=\"\/blog\/uploads\/egyptflag.png\" width=\"125\" height=\"83\" \/><\/span>Egypt will open the world&#8217;s first Arabic language internet domain, its communications minister has said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tarek Kamel said the new domain name would be &#8220;.masr&#8221; written in the Arabic alphabet. It translates as &#8220;.Egypt&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a great moment for us&#8230; The internet now speaks Arabic,&#8221; Mr Kamel said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Last month, internet regulator Icann voted to allow non-Latin web addresses. Domain names can now be written in Arabic, Chinese and other scripts.<\/p>\n<p><!-- E SF -->Mr Kamel, who was speaking at the start of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) being held in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, said a formal announcement would be made on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Registration for addresses with the .masr ending would begin at midnight (2200 GMT), he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Astonishing&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said the new domain would &#8220;offer new avenues for innovation, investment and growth&#8221; in the Arabic-speaking world.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt currently has 15 million internet users out of a total population of 80 million.<\/p>\n<p>But international rights groups have warned of heavy government censorship inside the country, with several bloggers and political dissidents being arrested for &#8220;security reasons&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday the Reporters Without Borders group criticised the choice of Egypt as venue for the IGF, saying it was &#8220;astonishing&#8221; that a government openly hostile to internet users had been assigned its organisation.<\/p>\n<p>The forum, set up by the UN, is being attended by more than 1,000 participants including government ministers, businesspeople and net luminaries.<\/p>\n<p><em>source: http:\/\/bbc.co.uk<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt will open the world&#8217;s first Arabic language internet domain, its communications minister has said. 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