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Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania ( ar, الجمهورية الإسلامية ...

. .mr domains can be registered by Mauritanian citizens, residents, and legal entities with a local representation.

History

The management of the Internet Top-Level-Domain Names in Mauritania was delegated by ICANN to the Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) of the University of Nouakchott in April 1996. As the country was not connected to the internet at that time, IRD (Montpellier, France) hosted the .mr name servers. Once the required infrastructure is established by April 2000, Network Information Center was created within the Faculty of Science and Technology and started hosting the .mr name servers.

Structure

Registrations are taken directly at the second level, under .mr. However, a number of second level domains exists for different purposes.

Internationalized domain name

On 27 January 2019, ICANN approver a request for delegation of the country-code top-level domain representing Mauritania in Arabic Script to Université de Nouakchott Al Aasriya. As of December 2022, no information regarding the registration under this TLD is available on the registry website.

References

External links

IANA .mr whois information

.mr domain registration website

domain application form
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