Domain names are a crucial part of using the Internet. The introduction of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) is very important, and it occurred after several years of continuous effort by the whole Internet community, with the launch of the IDN ccTLD fast track in Nov 2009.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, represented by SaudiNIC (Saudi Network Information Center), has been very active in supporting Arabic domain names since 2000. It has gained valuable experience and contributed heavily in this area. The aim of this workshop is to highlight some of our latest efforts and contributions in supporting the use of the Arabic language in domain names and email addresses. This will be done via highlights of some of the contributions at different levels:
• Introduction about DNS and Domain names
• Glance at the Arabic Domain Names Journey
• IDN Assessment Reports
• Arabic Emails Pilot Project (Raseel -Phase I and Phase II)
• Arabic domains universal acceptance challenges