saudinic’s experiences in registering adn under ( .السعودية )
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SaudiNIC’s Experiences in Registering ADN Under ( .السعودية ). Anas Assiri, SaudiNIC [email protected] IP Strategies and IDN Issues Workshop , Damascus (Syria) 16-18 May 2006. Agenda. Introduction Accomplishments Policies and regulations Requirements Technical Issues Statistics ????????? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
SaudiNIC’s Experiences in Registering ADNUnder ( .السعودية)
Anas Assiri, SaudiNICAnas Assiri, SaudiNIC
[email protected]@isu.net.sa
IP Strategies and IDN Issues Workshop , IP Strategies and IDN Issues Workshop , Damascus (Syria) 16-18 May 2006Damascus (Syria) 16-18 May 2006
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Agenda
• Introduction•Accomplishments•Policies and regulations•Requirements•Technical Issues•Statistics ?????????•Lesson learned
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Introduction
• SaudiNIC has opened the registration of Arabic domain names under (.السعودية) for test purposes on:– 26/9/2005 (22/8/1426 H)
• Following the regulations of the Arabic Domain Names Pilot Project (www.arabic-domains.org)
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Accomplishments• Writing registration policies for Arabic domains
.(السعودية.)• Publishing a section in SaudiNIC website about ADNs:
– http://www.nic.net.sa/adn.php• Building forms and tools for handling ADN requests.
– Online form for submitting registration requests.– Online form for instant modification.– Whois service.– Zone builder for (السعودية).– ADN Registration System.– Provide domain hosting choices for ADN.
• Making announcements through the media regarding– Arabic Domain Names Pilot Project– The launching date for accepting Arabic domains requests
under (.السعودية)
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Policies and Regulations• Governed by the policies and regulations of the ADNPP• Utilize the .SA policies as a template for the Arabic domains• Flat Registration under (السعودية)• First come first serve• Domain names format (based on the ADNPP guidelines) :
– Length from 3 to 30 (approximate).– Consists of the main 28 Arabic letters and their possible shapes.
• U0621-U063A + U0641-U064A – Use Dash (-) as word separators.– Domain should start with the entity type or activities
• شبكة – – – – – – – نادي مستشفى مدرسة شركة مجموعة إدارة وزارة– Match spelling and grammar rules (manually).– No registration for persons (temporary).– Not permitted:
• Mixing between languages and scripts.• Kasheeda(التطويلة)• Tashkeel (diacritica) and Shaddah• Numbers (temporary)• Character folding• Combining many Arabic words without separator.
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RegistrationRequirements &
Procedure• Requirements:
– Having an active .sa domain name.– Filling the online form.– Sending a conformation letter to SaudiNIC.
• Confirm reading the policies!
• Procedure:– Reading and agreeing on SaudiNIC ADN
Policies.– Choosing appropriate Arabic domain names
• Guidelines that helps choosing Arabic domain name.– Filling the online application form.
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Technical Issues
• Domain name hosting choices :– URL forwarding/Redirecting (shared hosting)– IP addressing (dedicated/IP-based hosting)– Pointing to name servers (full DNS hosting)
• If ISP familiar with IDN/ADN
• Use UTF-8 for all data.• Store the puny-code for the ADN.
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Learned Lessons• Users submit many requests for Arabic
domains:– With Arabic spelling Mistakes!– With English pronunciation in Arabic letters.– Popular and general names of future selling
purposes.
• Some Obstacles:– Difficult to coordinate and make every ISP to join
the project so users can reach AND• Project can not expand without Word-wide Root server.
– Many users are using Microsoft IE (Ver. 6 or less) browser which does not support IDN• IE 7 will support it.
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Thanks
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