Arabic Domain Website: المملكة.العربية.السعودية

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Welcome to the website (المملكة.العربية.السعودية), one of the first Arabic domain names to be registered in the world!

Registration for this domain was activated on 22 Jumada al-Awwal 1431 AH (corresponding to May 6, 2010), coinciding with the addition of the Saudi top-level domain (.السعودية) to the DNS Root Servers by IANA/ICANN.

This is an official website sponsored by the Saudi Network Information Center (SaudiNIC) at the Communications, Space and Technology Commission (CST). It aims to launch Arabic domain names into actual use and register this national domain as one of the first active Arabic domains in the world.

Arabic domain names are website addresses written in Arabic script. They are used in the same manner as standard domain names across various internet applications—particularly web browsing and access. They rely on the simple concept of mapping each Arabic domain name to a corresponding encoded representation stored in DNS servers.

Guideline Rules for writing Arabic IDNs under the IDN ccTLD (.السعودية)

This document identifies all allowed code points to be used when registering a domain name within the IDN ccTLD (.السعودية) that was designated for Arabic domain names in Saudi Arabia. This document also sets a number of guideline rules that help to write Arabic domain names correctly, taking into account issues related to the Arabic language as well as the Arabic script.