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• 5/12/2024

  With Registration Growth of 40%.. CST Published the Saudi Domain Report 2024

  ​The Communications, Space and Technology Commission (CST) published the second edition of the Saudi Domain Report 2023, intending to highlight the Ki…

• 4/17/2024

  The Communications, Space and Technology Commission (CST) announced its update of the Saudi Domain Names’ regulations

  The Communications, Space and Technology Commission (CST) announced its update of the Saudi Domain Names’ regulations, seeking to develop the Saudi d…

• 9/15/2023

  The Communications, Space and Technology Commission (CST) issued the “Regulations of Accessing Locally Hosted Internet Content”

  CST Issues the “Regulations of Accessing Locally Hosted Internet Content” Document

• 12/27/2022

  CST Holds Training Program on DNS & DNSSEC

  The Communications, Space, and Technology Commission (“CST”) held a training program on Domain Name System (“DNS”) and Domain Name System Security Ext…

• 4/1/2022

  CST Announces the End of the Transition Period for Saudi Domain Names

  The Communications, Space & Technology Commission (CST) announced the end of the transition period for Saudi domain names. Private sector and individ…

• 3/6/2022

  CST Launches Phase II of Saudi Domain Name Registrars Accreditation

  The Communications, Space & Technology Commission (CST) launches the second phase of the Registrar Accreditation for Saudi Domain Names, which aims to…

• 1/10/2022

  Next March CST Launches Second Phase of Accreditation of Saudi Domain Name Registrars

  CST announced launch of Second Phase of Accreditation of Saudi Domain Name Registrars, which will open a room to accredit more private sector registra…

• 12/31/2021

  CST Extends Transition Period for Saudi Domains

  The Communications, Space & Technology Commission (CST) announced that the transitional period for Saudi domain names has been extended for the privat…

• 10/12/2021

  Communications, Space & Technology Commission (CST) Reaffirms Deadline for Transferring Saudi Domain Names

  The Communications, Space & Technology Commission (CST) renewed its instructions to all users registered under Saudi domains (ending in .sa or .السعود…

• 2/21/2021

  CST Announces Accreditation of Registrars to Provide Saudi Domain Name registration services

  The Communications, Space & Technology Commission (CST) announced today the results of accrediting registrars to provide Saudi domain name registratio…

• 1/11/2021

  CST Prompts Saudi Domain Name Registrants to Update Registration Data

  CST today has prompted Saudi domain name registrants to update the registration data, as well as the administrative contact data. This is done to ensu…

• 9/21/2020

  Be Ready for the 2nd DNS flag day

  Major DNS systems developers such as (BIND, PowerDNS, Knot and Unbound) agreed to have an initiative to make the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol mor…

• 6/18/2020

  CST Signs Agreement with "Monshaat" to Enable Small and Medium Enterprises to Become Accredited Registrars for Saudi Domain Names

  CST has signed a cooperation agreement with the (General Authority for Small and Medium Enterprises) to create a separate track with the goal to enabl…

• 6/10/2020

  CST launched the first application phase of accrediting registrars for Saudi domain names

  CST launched the first application phase of accrediting registrars for Saudi domain names. This will give entities from the private sector the chance …

• 1/7/2020

  Publication of Updated Version of SaudiNIC Registration Regulation

  As part of the continuous efforts from CST to develop and enhance the services provided for local domain names (domain names that end with .sa or .الس…

• 12/3/2019

  SaudiNIC Holds DNSSEC Application Training In Collaboration With ICANN

  Communications, Space & Technology Commission (CST), represented by the Saudi Network Information Center, hosted a DNSSEC training program in collabor…

• 1/30/2019

  Be ready for the DNS flag day

  Friday, 1st February 2019, is the DNS Flag day. Major open source DNS developers (such as BIND, PowerDNS, Knot and Unbound) agreed to coordinate remov…

• 10/7/2018

  SaudiNIC Hosts DNSSEC Training in Riyadh

  CST, represented by SaudiNIC, in collaboration with RIPE, has organized and hosted a three-days training event on the implementation of DNSSEC during …

• 9/27/2018

  SaudiNIC Participation in the Meeting No.74 for Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association (APTLD)

  SaudiNIC participated in the meeting No.74 for Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association ( APTLD ) that was held in Tashkent-Uzbekistan from Sep 18-21…

• 7/4/2018

  SaudiNIC Succeedes in the 1st KSK rolloverLevel Domain Association

  After more than a year from activating DNSSEC for Saudi domain names under the Saudi TLDs (.sa ,.السعودية), SaudiNIC (part of CST) performed a success…

• 10/10/2017

  Improving the Overall Spread of the Saudi ccTLD DNS Servers Regionally and Internationally

  As a continuation of the development process and increasing the level of stability, security and reliability of Saudi domain names (.sa & .السعودية), …

• 9/21/2017

  Changing the Signing Key (KSK) for the DNS root servers

  ICANN/IANA is planning to implement the first “root KSK rollover”, i.e. the root zone’s key signing key (KSK) will be changed.