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The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has been offering Arabic language domain names since 2012, but luckily, it does not seem that anyone in Oman has made the mistake of actually using one.
Very few people know that it is possible to register a domain name that is entirely made up of Arabic characters. This is not the same as registering an Arabic word written using the Latin alphabet, such as Shura.om, but domain names that are written entirely using Arabic language characters, such as تعليم عمان ...
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Even though it has been almost a decade since these internationalised domain names have been made available, nobody seems to be using them. Contrary to what was argued by the proponents of internationalised domain names, you do not need to have an internationalised domain name to publish content written in non-Latin scripts. We have had web content written in the Arabic language before Arabic domain names came out, and we continue to do so without using these domain names...
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2021 now and still no single arabic domain name is popular
 
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Why do you think this is?
maybe less and less users are using arabic as their default keyboard, and all are used to english URL.
 
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turn com into كوم and everything will work out
too awkward for me write a word in arabic then change back to English to add the extension
so instead of موقع.com it become موقع.كوم
 
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I just squiggly lines unless you speak Arabic that's what most see
 
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