مصر.

Masr (domain name)

Masr (domain name)

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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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  1. [1]
    NTRA, Three Egyptian Companies Selected for Domain Name Registration Services under the Arabic Country Code Top Level Domain of Egypt “مصر.”
  2. [2]
    Two New Licenses for (.masr) Domain Name Registration to Be Launched
  3. [3]
    First IDN ccTLDs available, ICANN announcement, 2010-05-05
  4. [4]
    'Historic' day as first non-latin web addresses go live, BBC, 6 May 2010.
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