Dot.egypt(IDN) open public registrations

[Jay]

Originally Posted by Steve Clarke

How Many did you Register?

I regged 7, myself.

I regged 10. But with one of them, جيريمي نورثكوت, they won't let me add nameservers, so it's a lame duck. It's now officially an unregistered name even though it's sitting in my account. No cigar for guessing why.

[clipper]

Originally Posted by alexd

I still get totally confused with Arabic domains - I think its one of the IDN languages where you really need to be a native speaker to make sure you get the right domain.

+1

Arabic is a language where the location filter really helps when using GKT and Trends. I almost regged a term that had 100k exact searches, but less than a thousand from within Egypt.

[alexd]

What would you guys consider to be a decent number for exact search matches within Egypt ?? I found some pretty decent names that I think are correct, but the exact match for within Egypt is only in the hundreds !!

I've noticed that quite a few that have been registered actually have very low exact matches with Google. For example, اونلاين ( online ) is registered but only has an exact match result of 170 !!

By the way - I registered 6 domains, but might have another look if there are any others I think are worth registering.

Alex

[Glasson]

Checking location filter is very important as different spellings are sometines used in different countries. Example the word "club" (last letter is slightly different):
- in Egypt: نادى
- in Saudi Arabia: نادي
and you can see it in Trends.

I use both the "Competition" filter and the exact search match. For egypt I look for 50k and more.

[clipper]

Found this in a lot of WHIOS records. Does it mean they are held by the registry, or is this the name of a private registerer:

Local Name: أرباحك للإستضافة
Google Translate: Earnings for the Host

???

[clipper]

Originally Posted by alexd

I've noticed that quite a few that have been registered actually have very low exact matches with Google. For example, اونلاين ( online ) is registered but only has an exact match result of 170 !!

An Egyptian native could probably explain this better but from a domaining perspective I'd call it a mistake just based on the numbers. From a developer's perspective it may be different.

I took these four with development in mind:
الافلام
موبايلات
دردشة
صحف
Any opinions would be appreciated.

[g]

Originally Posted by clipper

Found this in a lot of WHIOS records. Does it mean they are held by the registry, or is this the name of a private registerer:

Local Name: أرباحك للإستضافة
Google Translate: Earnings for the Host

???

I think it is a company called "your earnings" providing hosting services

[Glasson]

Originally Posted by g

I think it is a company called "your earnings" providing hosting services

right the company is arba7ak.net

[AWS]

Got only four and a fith failed to register. Payment was made, but the domain isnt in my account

The best one i think is مدونة (Blog). Very happy about that.

[alibuba]

I ran about 12 searches for really good to the best terms and only two were taken by link. I regged one, fly.egypt

طيران.مصر

Lots available i think but i feel it wont be for long.

Again curious how we can find out how many have been regged and if they plan a advertising campaign?

[Steve Clarke]

Changed nameservers, and moved mine over to ParkingCrew, a couple of days ago...but their not resolving properly.

[Glasson]

Originally Posted by Steve Clarke

Changed nameservers, and moved mine over to ParkingCrew, a couple of days ago...but their not resolving properly.

Mine are resolving properly.
I noticed in the one in your signature that there is a space between the name and the dot:
- it should be تأمين.مصر
and I see a space between the name and the dot (even in the URL bar)

PS: i entered the punycode in the URL, and I still see this small space

[Steve Clarke]

Thanks, for the heads-up Buddy!

[Glasson]

Some information regarding the dot.egypt(IDN):

- if you have registered a name that ends with "ى" you get automatically the version of the same name which ends with "ي" (and vice versa). It's also automatically activated and resolves to same site.

- if you have registered a name with numbers it also automatically registers the name with the arabic number (1,2,3,... and١,٢,٣,...).

- in 2 days about 1'000 names were registered.


Source (in arabic): http://www.dotmasr.eg/

[g]

Originally Posted by Glasson

Some information regarding the dot.egypt(IDN):

- if you have registered a name that ends with "ى" you get automatically the version of the same name which ends with "ي" (and vice versa). It's also automatically activated and resolves to same site.

- if you have registered a name with numbers it also automatically registers the name with the arabic number (1,2,3,... and١,٢,٣,...).

- in 2 days about 1'000 names were registered.


Source (in arabic): http://www.dotmasr.eg/

where is the source , I read arabic but I can not find it

[Glasson]

Originally Posted by g

where is the source , I read arabic but I can not find it

under the FAQ: http://www.dotmasr.eg/FAQ_Ar.aspx

General policy: http://www.dotmasr.eg/Files/08012012/GeneralPolicy.pdf

[g]

thanks but where it says that 2000 domains registered in 2 days!

[Glasson]

Originally Posted by g

thanks but where it says that 2000 domains registered in 2 days!

source is from someone working at registry.
1'000 in 2 days.

[Man]

I was surprised when i knew it few days ago by chance
Many good names are already taken
They should have announced the opening earlier

[g]

Originally Posted by Man

I was surprised when i knew it few days ago by chance
Many good names are already taken
They should have announced the opening earlier

you are right ,I found it by chance

but I think that they did not expect much popularity