Arabic Domain Names

[Nomar]

ICANN released 3 TLD's in non-latin.

"The three new top-level domains are السعودية. (“Al-Saudiah”), امارات. ( “Emarat”) and مصر. (“Misr”). All three are Arabic script domains, and will enable domain names written fully right-to-left."

Oddly enough, it is not Chinese or Japanese like I would have imagined.

Source: http://blog.icann.org/2010/05/idn-cctlds/

[72666]

lol, domains like that will be impossible for me

[Nomar]

lol, domains like that will be impossible for me

That's what I thought lol

[GekiDan]

How can those domain name be found by search engines? And how can I write it on my keyboard?
Seems really impossible to me...

[niks00789]

dont worry after few days you will see keyboards having those alphabets.
I have already seen some mobile phones in india having similar symbols above our general a-z alphabets.
Maybe they were imported versions of nokia.

[pinkvinny]

I can see that the site will be hard for those who isn't Arabic or Chinese to access that.

[armer]

Arabic users are the 3rd most people to visit the internet with more than 27 country.

Those domain in this list are Country Names domains.

And mostly they will be used by goverenements.
For the people whio want to use them, google provide tools to use an Arabic virtual Keyboard.


In the near Futur, Arabic market will be the most wanted market in the internet, so consider some time to know more about it.

[Isolde]

I disagree with you armer, China, India & USA will be the top

[armer]

China, India and USA are already the top.

Next generation is Arabic and Spanish.
Not only in the Internet, but in everything.

[Nomar]

Spanish is already at the top too