(, romanized as masrTwo New Licenses for (.masr) Domain Name Registration to Be Launched ) is the internationalized country code top-level domain (IDN ccTLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet for Egypt.First IDN ccTLDs available, ICANN announcement, 2010-05-05 'Historic' day as first non-latin web addresses go live, BBC, 6 May 2010. Its ASCII DNS name is xn--wgbh1c, obtained by the Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) transcription method.

The domain was one of the first IDN ccTLDs installed in the DNS on 5 May 2010.

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 ( — literally, referendum[of].egypt).

See also Top-level domain Punycode

References

External links Dot Masr, Al-Ahram Weekly On-line, 13–19 May 2010 Net milestone: Egypt gets first Arabic domain name, The Times of India, May 7, 2010 Egypt business: Arabic domain name soon a reality, 1 March 2010