Introduced | 1994 |
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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 | Very popular in Saudi Arabia |
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 (.السعودية) , the third level domains registration is available beneath various second-level labels |
Documents | Rules |
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 السعودية.
The second-level domains that are officially open to third-level registrations are:
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, السعودية) one of the first four new IDN ccTLDs to have passed the Fast Track String Evaluation within the domain application process.