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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Yes Eric, there are 3 ICANN Accredited Registrars physically located in the LAS member countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.agip.com/">Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property dba TAGIdomains.com</a> – Amman, Jordan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.kuwaitnet.net/">KuwaitNET General Trading Co.</a> – Kuwait City, Kuwait<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.genious.net/">Genious Communications SARL/AU</a> – Casablanca, Morocco<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='color:#1F497D'>There are three others (<b>Crazy Domains FZ-LLC</b>, <b>DreamScape Networks FZ-LLC</b>, and <b>dm3 Digital Media Marketing and Monitoring FZ-LLC</b>) registered in Dubai, but their operations are either overseas or no operations (while the first two are UK based Crazy Domains, the third points to the Gulf Computer Society website).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Fahd<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify;border:none;padding:0in'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Eric (Maule) Brunner-Williams [mailto:ebw@nike.wampumpeag.net] <br>Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 9:54 PM<br>To: Fahd Batayneh<br>Cc: Stephen Wilcox; menog@menog. net; Eric (Maule) Brunner-Williams<br>Subject: Re: [menog] New Arabic TLD and idea's popularity</p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Does anyone know of an ICANN accredited gTLD registrar physically located in one of the LAS member countries?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Last I checked there were none.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Eric<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>