The Saudi Network Information Center, abbreviated SaudiNIC is the

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 ...

registry for the domain name space — under (.sa and السعودية.) — for

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia. Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about , making it the List of Asian countries ...

. The SaudiNIC mandate includes the operation of the DNS root servers for the local domain space as well as all the registry services including the registration services and technical support. From its inception in 1995 until late 2006 SaudiNIC was managed and operated by the

King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST; ) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a governmental organization established in 1977 as the Saudi Arabian National Center for Science & Technology (SANCST; ); in 1985, it was renamed King Abdulaziz ...

. The task of operating SaudiNIC was transferred by ministerial direction to a

statutory corporation A statutory corporation is a corporation, government entity created as a statutory body by statute. Their precise nature varies by jurisdiction, but they are corporations owned by a government or controlled by national or sub-national government ...

, the Communications and Information Technology Commission.

References

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External links

SaudiNIC website

CITC website

Internet.gov.sa website

Internet in Saudi Arabia Domain name registries