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name , romanized as emarat,ausregistry
First .emarat Arabic script domain name is live!
, 7 May 2010 is the

internationalized country code top-level domain An internationalized country code top-level domain is a top-level domain in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. IDN ccTLDs are specially encoded domain names that are displayed in an end user application, such as a web browser, in the ...

for the

United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia ( The Middle East). It is located at t ...

. The

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name of this domain in the

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of the

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is xn--mgbaam7a8h, using the

Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications An internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that contains at least one label displayed in software applications, in whole or in part, in non-latin script or alphabet, such as Arabic, Bengali, Chinese ( Mandarin, simplifi ...

(IDNA) procedure in the translation of the

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representation of the script version. The domain was installed in the Domain Name System on 5 May 2010. The first second-level sub domain is ‎.‎ which is transliterated as arabi.emarat. The United Arab Emirates is also assigned the country code top-level domain

.ae .ae is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet for the United Arab Emirates. It is administered by .aeDA which is part of the Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority of UAE (TDR ...

. The dotEmarat Sunrise Period started from 17 October 2010 for a duration of 2 months, ending on 15 December 2010. This period was exclusively for all registered trademark owners to apply for a dotEmarat domain name.

References

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