Skip to main content

Home/ Media in Middle East & North Africa/ Group items tagged السعودية

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Ed Webb

BBC News - DotShabaka top-level internet domain goes live - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/26014829

internet Arabic languages

shared by Ed Webb on 04 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • An Arabic net address ending has become the first to go live as part of the rollout of more than 1,000 new generic top-level domain (gTLD) name suffixes. The first websites ending in شبكة. - pronounced dot shabaka, and meaning web - went online a day ahead of schedule.
  • The DotShabaka Registry - the Dubai-based business running the شبكة. gTLD - announced that both its own homepage and that of the United Arab Emirates telecoms provider Etisalat had started using its new suffix, at a conference in Dubai.
  • "It's monumental, in my opinion, because it means the internet finally speaks in Arabic," Yasmin Omer, general manager of the DotShabaka Registry told the BBC.
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • Although this is the first generic top-level domain in Arabic, there were already country code top-level domains in the script, including .الاردن for Jordan and .السعودية for Saudi Arabia, which went live in 2010.
  • Other non-Latin script gTLDs expected to launch over the coming days include 游戏, Mandarin for game; сайт, Russian for site; and онлайн, Russian for online.
  • "The constraints that we had in the past with top-level domains were purely artificial, which is one reason that the very popular ones - for example .com - can be so expensive," explained Dr Ian Brown from the Oxford Internet Institute. "But how far people actually use them to access sites is an important question. In reality these days most people tend to go to a search engine rather than try to remember a company's domain name that they have seen on an advert, for example.
gweyman

As-Safir Newspaper - مايسة عواد : «العالم» في مواجهة «العربية».. بل قل هو «كب... - 0 views

assafir.com/Article.aspx

saudi_arabia arabiya media television iran السعودية

shared by gweyman on 08 Oct 09 - Cached
  • gweyman on 08 Oct 09
     
    Interesting piece on Saudi media influence
1 - 2 of 2
Showing 20▼ items per page