Egypt to push first Arabic domain name

November 16, according to foreign media reports, Egypt's communications minister announced in Sunday Egypt will launch the first Arabic domain name.　　The move will make it easier for millions of of Arabs around the world to access the Internet. Egypt's Minister of communications, Tarek Kamel, said at the fourth meeting of the Internet Governance Forum in Egypt that starting at midnight in Sunday (GMT 22), the Misr country code top-level domain name began registering.　　' Now, we can really say that the internet will speak Arabic, ' he said. Egypt was announced after the Internet name and digital address distribution Agency (ICANN) decided to end the Web site address specifically using Latin characters after the announcement of the launch of the Arabic domain name.　　ICANN has decided to allow Internet users to write the entire site's address in Chinese, Arabic, Russian and several other phonetic characters. The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Sha Zukang, said at the meeting that the voices of developing countries must be heard.　　Good and democratic Internet governance is a means of achieving development for all countries. Author: Tianhong