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Egypt launches world’s first Arabic web domain

By Ben Morales-Correa

Communications minister Tarek Kamel said the new domain name would be “.masr” written in the Arabic alphabet. It translates as “.Egypt”. Last month, internet regulator Icann voted to allow non-Latin web addresses. Domain names can now be written in Arabic, Chinese and other scripts. Mr Kamel, who was speaking at the start of the Internet Governance... »



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