Masr (domain name)
Internet country-code top level domain for Egypt
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صر (lit.â'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.
| Introduced | 2010 |
|---|---|
| TLD type | Internationalized country code top-level domain |
| Status | Active |
| Registry | TE Data, InTouch, Vodafone Data and the Egyptian Universities Network (EUN)[1] |
| Intended use | Entities connected with |
| Actual use | Limited use in Egypt. First site is Ù ÙÙØ¹.ÙØ²Ø§Ø±Ø©-Ø§ÙØ§ØªØµØ§Ùات.٠صر |
| Dispute policies | Dispute Resolution |
| DNS name | xn--wgbh1c |
| Registry website | www |
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 (Ø§Ø³ØªÙØªØ§Ø¡.Ù
صر â literally, referendum[of].egypt).