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.
Read MoreVery 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 ...
Read MoreEven 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...