AlSaudiah
{{Short description|Internationalized country code top-level domain for Saudi Arabia}}
{{Update|date=November 2018}}
{{Infobox Top level domain
|name=السعودية
|background=#CCF
|image=Al Saudiah logo.svg
|introduced=2010
|type=Internationalised country code top-level domain
|status=Active
|registry=SaudiNIC[http://www.nic.net.sa/page.php?page=9&lang=1 Launching Arabic domain name Registration] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716000127/http://www.nic.net.sa/page.php?page=9&lang=1 |date=2011-07-16 }}, Saudi Network Information Center
|sponsor=
|intendeduse=Entities connected with {{SAU}} in the Arabic language
|actualuse=
|restrictions=
|structure=
|document=
|disputepolicy=
|DNSname=xn--mgberp4a5d4ar
|website=
|refregistereddomains=[https://www.nic.sa/en/ SaudiNIC]|registereddomains=1,075|dateregistereddomains=21 August 2023}}
The Arabic name {{Lang|ar|السعودية}}, romanized as AlSaudiah,[http://www.iprights.com/content.output/940/940/Resources/Alerts/Alert%20360%20-%20UAE,%20Saudi%20Arabia,%20Egypt%20-%20Non-Latin%20Domain%20Names%20Accepted.mspx Alert 360 - UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt - Non-Latin Domain Names Accepted] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100513182303/http://www.iprights.com/content.output/940/940/Resources/Alerts/Alert%20360%20-%20UAE%2C%20Saudi%20Arabia%2C%20Egypt%20-%20Non-Latin%20Domain%20Names%20Accepted.mspx |date=2010-05-13 }}, Rouse is the Internationalized country code top-level domain for Saudi Arabia.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10100108.stm 'Historic' day as first non-latin web addresses go live], BBC, 6 May 2010.
History
The top-level domain was installed in the DNS on May 5, 2010. It was among the first non-Latin top-level domains to ever go live.{{cite web|url=https://thenextweb.com/me/2010/05/06/monumental-day-internet-nonlatin-domain-names-live/|title=Monumental Day For the Internet as First Non-Latin Domain Names Go Live|website=Thenextweb.com|author=Zee|date=6 May 2010 |access-date=23 December 2019}}
Government organizations were able to register the domain name for the first time from 31 May 2010 to 12 July 2010, followed by a public launch a few months later. By 2013, 1,939 AlSaudiah domain names were registered.{{cite web|url=http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/wks2014/uploads/proposal_attachments/IDN_World_Report_2014-FIN.pdf|title=World report on Internationalised Domain Names|website=Intgovforum.org|date=2014|access-date=23 December 2019}}
Description
AlSaudiah ({{Lang|ar|السعودية}}) is the Internationalized country code top-level domain for Saudi Arabia. Only persons or entities related to Saudi Arabia are able to register.{{Citation needed|date=October 2018}} The top-level domain is managed by the Saudi Network Information Center (SaudiNIC).
The ASCII name of this domain in the Domain Name System is xn--mgberp4a5d4ar, obtained by application of the Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) rules for the translation of the Unicode representation of the script version.
Saudi Arabia is also assigned the country code top-level domain .sa.