.eg is the
Latin alphabet
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country code top-level domain
A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory identified with a country code. All ASCII ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, and all tw ...
(ccTLD) for
Egypt
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. Any entity who wants to register a domain name ending with
.eg must have a local representative or the domain name has to be hosted on Egyptian
DNS
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servers. Egypt's
Arabic alphabet
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ccTLD is
.مصر.
Second-level domains
There are several second-level domains. Registrations are possible at the second level (directly under .eg) or at the third level beneath these names, with required documents sometimes differing depending on the one selected.
* .ac.eg: Academic sites.
* .com.eg: Commercial sites.
* .edu.eg: Educational sites.
* .egregistry.eg: top-level domain services
* .eun.eg: Egyptian Universities Network.
* .gov.eg: Governmental sites.
* .info.eg: Information sector.
* .mil.eg: Military sites.
* .name.eg: Personal "name" websites.
* .net.eg: Networking and IT services.
* .org.eg: Egyptian non-governmental organizations.
* .sci.eg: Scientific sites.
* .sport.eg: Sports sites.
* .tv.eg: Visual media.
Historical event
During the
2011 Egyptian protests, the domain was shut down by the government.
''Egyptian Internet shutdown by government''
CNN
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, January 28, 2011.
References
External links
domain.eg
Country code top-level domains
Internet in Egypt
Mass media in Egypt
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