Introduced | 1990 |
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TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
Status | Active |
Registry | Egyptian Universities Network |
Sponsor | Egyptian Universities Network |
Intended use | Entities connected with Egypt |
Actual use | Popular in Egypt |
Structure | Registrations are at the second level, and at the third level beneath various second-level labels |
Website | Registration info |
.eg is the Latin alphabet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Egypt. Any entity who wants to register a domain name ending with .eg
must have a local representative or the domain name has to be hosted on Egyptian DNS servers. Egypt's Arabic alphabet ccTLD is .مصر
. During the 2011 Egyptian protests, domain .eg was shut down by the government.
There are eleven second-level domains. Registrations are possible at the second level (directly under .eg) or at the third level beneath these names.
Examples of domain names registered at the second level: nic.eg, bibalex.eg, coke.eg, vodafone.eg, nile.eg.