.sa is the Latin alphabet Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of Saudi Arabia. Domains of this type can be registered through SaudiNIC, a department of the Communication & Information Technology Commission. The Arabic alphabet ccTLD of Saudi Arabia is السعودية.
Registrations are within these second-level categories:
- com.sa: Commercial entitites and registered trademarks
- edu.sa: Educational institutions
- sch.sa: Elementary and secondary schools
- med.sa: Health services (hospitals, clinics, etc.)
- gov.sa: Governmental entities
- net.sa: Internet-related services (ISPs, web hosting, portal sites, etc.)
- org.sa: Non-profit organizations
- pub.sa: Entities or individuals that do not fit in other categories, including personal names.
[edit] Internationalized country code TLD
Saudi Arabia was one of the first countries to apply for the new internationalized domain name country code top-level domains authorized by ICANN in 2009. In January 2010 ICANN announced that the Saudi IDN ccTLD (xn--mgberp4a5d4ar, السعودية) one of the first four new IDN ccTLDs to have passed the Fast Track String Evaluation within the domain application process.[1]
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.бг (bg, Bulgaria) .κπ (kp, Cyprus) .ελ (el, Greece) ישראל. (yisrael, Israel) .日本 (nippon, Japan)
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