<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>List of all countries with delegated IDN names is available here: <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion/s">http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion/s</a>. There are 12 countries in MENA; Iran + 12 Arab countries: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Oman. Sudan and Yemen are in the process. </div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div>Baher</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Ahmed Abu-Abed <<a href="mailto:ahmed@tamkien.com">ahmed@tamkien.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Sunday, October 27, 2013 8:51 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Tom Paseka <<a href="mailto:tom+menog@cloudflare.com">tom+menog@cloudflare.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> "menog@menog. net" <<a href="mailto:menog@menog.net">menog@menog.net</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [menog] New Arabic TLD and idea's popularity<br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000"><div>Hi Tom,</div><div> </div><div>Country code TLDs have been available since 2010 for 4 Arab countries at
least. Unfortunately its not on most peoples priority list for implementing, and
I have not noticed any advertising for an Arabic URL over the past couple of
years (I live in the MENOG region).</div><div> </div><div>As for CloudFlares IDNs, it would be good to filter out which are using the
Arabic alphabet and know how many Arabic IDNs are actually out there. That would
require a good understanding of Punycode used to translate an IDN into Latin
characters.</div><div> </div><div>Regards,</div><div>-Ahmed</div><div> </div><div style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none; DISPLAY: inline"><div style="FONT: 10pt tahoma"><div> </div><div style="BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5"><div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a title="tom+menog@cloudflare.com" href="mailto:tom+menog@cloudflare.com">Tom Paseka</a> </div><div><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 27, 2013 7:20 PM</div><div><b>To:</b> <a title="ahmed@tamkien.com" href="mailto:ahmed@tamkien.com">Ahmed
Abu-Abed</a> </div><div><b>Cc:</b> <a title="menog@menog.net" href="mailto:menog@menog.net">mailto:menog@menog.net</a> </div><div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [menog] New Arabic TLD and idea's
popularity</div></div></div><div> </div></div><div style="FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none; DISPLAY: inline"><div dir="ltr">Hi Ahmed,
<div> </div><div>I've had a look through CloudFlare's customers and we see thousands of
IDN's, but this is nothing compared to what exists in pre-existing romanized
domains. </div><div> </div><div>For a pre-existing company to move to a IDN, or any new domain in general,
they have to revamp their presence, re-market to everyone to make sure they
visit the correct address. I assume this isn't an easy task. </div><div> </div><div>I suspect you'll see new starters coming out from the get-go with an IDN,
but it'll take a while for the existing content to start adoption.</div><div> </div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Tom</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 1:54 AM, Ahmed Abu-Abed <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ahmed@tamkien.com" target="_blank">ahmed@tamkien.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">
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<div>ICANN is in the news with the new <font face="Times New Roman">شبكة</font> TLD, see <a title="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24637673" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24637673" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24637673</a></div>
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<div>I am yet to see Arabic TLDs widely implemented, although most browsers
are ready, even on iOS and Android which I tested with an Arabic URL. Any idea
on why is the delay in implementing Arabic URL by content providers
(newspapers, etc.) ? People in the region prefer Arabic websites, so I am
wondering what’s stopping content providers from having Arabic URLs.</div>
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<div>Also, anyone know if major portals, like Google or Yahoo, have
implemented IDNs in any language for their URL ? Something like
ياهو.شبكة (which translates to Yahoo.net , as I cannot find an
equivalent to .com as an Arabic TLD).</div>
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<div>Best Regards,</div>
<div>Ahmed Abu-Abed</div>
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