Bahrain Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) recently attended the Arab Top Level Domain Names Steering Committee Meetings held in Damascus, Syria, during which Mr. Ahmed Al Doseri, TRA Bahrain's representative, was appointed president of the Committee that comprises representatives from the Kingdom of Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Yemen.
The Committee is tasked by the League of Arab States with the direct supervision and follow-up on the League's application for the domains (.arab) and the equivalent in Arabic (.arab).
TRA's ICT Manager Mr. Ahmed Al Doseri, who chaired the steering committee meeting, commented, "The creation and use of a ".arab" or Arabic equivalent domain will ensure greater regional identity and over time will help to bridge the digital divide by encouraging Arabic content development and ease of navigation for those people who only read and write in Arabic."
The international body that oversees internet names, Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names (ICANN), announced in November 2009 that it will accept applications for non-Latin alphabet domains. This will bring the Internet much closer to the diversified locales of the world's varied cultures.
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