UAE To Become First Country To Offer Fully Internationalized Domain Names

Posted on October 27th, 2008 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is set to become the first country worldwide to offer complete domain names including the Tld in a language other than English by late next year.

“In [the] third quarter of 2009, we will start implementing the Arabic domain names,” Mohammad Al Zarouni, chief technology officer at the .ae domain administration authority (TRA) told Gulf News. “The UAE is keen to be one of the pioneers for providing the domain name registration under the Arabic language.”

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is finalising the process of assigning languages to countries, according to Al Zarouni. The UAE is an active member on some of the boards of ICANN and local authorities are working to ensure that they are the first to be allowed to offer complete domain names in Arabic, which would also make them the first country to do so in a language other than English.

For further details read the full story here: http://www.gulfnews.com/business/Technology/10254469.html