The

colloquial Colloquialism (), also called colloquial language, everyday language or general parlance, is the linguistic style used for casual (informal) communication. It is the most common functional style of speech, the idiom normally employed in convers ...

Egyptian domain name (meaning "Egypt", romanized as masr) is the internationalized country code top-level domain (IDN ccTLD) in the

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(DNS) of the

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for

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Med ...

.First IDN ccTLDs available
ICANN announcement, 2010-05-05'' 'Historic' day as first non-latin web addresses go live''
BBC, 6 May 2010. Its

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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

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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 fegypt).

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External links

Dot Masr
Al-Ahram Weekly On-line, 13–19 May 2010
Net milestone: Egypt gets first Arabic domain name

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, May 7, 2010
Egypt business: Arabic domain name soon a reality
1 March 2010 Country code top-level domains {{Egypt-stub

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