Masr (domain name)
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مصر (lit. '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.
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Introduced | 2010 |
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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 Egypt |
Actual use | Limited use in Egypt. First site is موقع.وزارة-الاتصالات.مصر |
Dispute policies | Dispute Resolution[dead link] |
DNS name | xn--wgbh1c |
Registry website | www |
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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 (استفتاء.مصر — literally, referendum[of].egypt
).