.sa

.sa
Introduced	17 May 1994
TLD type	Country code top-level domain
Status	Active
Registry	Communications and Information Technology Commission ( SaudiNIC Unit)
Sponsor	Communications and Information Technology Commission
Intended use	Entities connected with Saudi Arabia
Actual use	Gets some use in Saudi Arabia
Registered domains	54,330 (21 August 2023)
Registration restrictions	Must have Saudi presence, a local representative, or trademark registered in Saudi Arabia; must show legal papers verifying identity
Structure	Second level domains registration is available under (.sa) and (.????????), the third level domains registration is available beneath various second-level labels
Documents	Rules
Registry website	SaudiNIC

.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 Communications and Information Technology Commission . The Arabic alphabet ccTLD of Saudi Arabia is ????????.

History [ edit ]

The .sa top-level domain was managed by the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology from 1995 to 2006. It was then transferred to Saudi Network Information Center (SaudiNIC). ^[2]

As of 21 August 2023, 54,330 .sa domain names were registered. ^[1]

Second-level domains [ edit ]

The second-level domains that are officially open to third-level registrations are:

com.sa : Commercial entities 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.

Internationalized country code TLD [ edit ]

Saudi Arabia was one of the first countries to apply for the new internationalized domain name (IDN) country code top-level domains authorized by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in 2009. In January 2010, ICANN announced that the Saudi IDN ccTLD (xn--mgberp4a5d4ar, ????????) one of the first four new IDN ccTLDs to have passed the Fast Track String Evaluation within the domain application process. ^[3]

References [ edit ]

^ ^a ^b SaudiNIC
^ "SaudiNIC provides statistics for domain registrations per second-level domain, as well as full statistics for domain registration since 1995" . Intgovforum.org . 2020. Archived from the original on 2012-09-20 . Retrieved 23 December 2019 .
^ "First IDN ccTLDs Requests Successfully Pass String Evaluation" . ICANN. 2010-01-21. Archived from the original on 24 January 2010 . Retrieved 25 January 2010 .

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[saudinic-1] SaudiNIC

[intgovforum_wks2014-2] "SaudiNIC provides statistics for domain registrations per second-level domain, as well as full statistics for domain registration since 1995" . Intgovforum.org . 2020. Archived from the original on 2012-09-20 . Retrieved 23 December 2019 .

[3] "First IDN ccTLDs Requests Successfully Pass String Evaluation" . ICANN. 2010-01-21. Archived from the original on 24 January 2010 . Retrieved 25 January 2010 .

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History [ edit ]

Second-level domains [ edit ]

Internationalized country code TLD [ edit ]

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References [ edit ]

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