ICANN Approves the String .امارات as the Official Arabic Top Level Domain for UAE

The Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA) has yet to register another millstone with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN’s) approval of the string (.emarat) (.امارات) as the official Arabic top level domain for the United Arab Emirates. The announcement made by ICANN came after TRA announced the use of the Arabic top level domain name for the UAE in GITEX 2009, providing the approval of ICANN; the (.emarat) was endorsed by the UAE ministerial Council for services as the definitive and representative domain name of the United Arab Emirates on the World Wide Web for its native language script.

The .ae Domain Administration (aeDA) was established by TRA as the Regulatory Body and Registry Operator for the .ae domain name. aeDA is responsible for enforcement of all policies reference to the operation of the .ae country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) as well as overseeing the operation of the Registry System.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) re-delegated the UAE ENUM space (971) to TRA, which in turn entrusted .aeDA with the management of the whole issue. Since then it has proven to possess an excellent capability to manage the .ae ccTLD from both administrative and technical perspectives in compliance with International Best Practices.