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* Direct contact with [[ccTLD]] [[registries]] and [[registrars]]
* Direct contact with [[ccTLD]] [[registries]] and [[registrars]]
* Data analysis of [[gTLD]] open zone files
* Data analysis of [[gTLD]] open zone files
===Multi-Country User Survey===
The users surveys were conducted in English, French, and Arabic, through a mixture of online forms and telephone interviews, and were administered by local companies and partners. 702 respondents in the MEAC region answered 24 questions on the user of online payment systems, online activities, and preferred languages. Though the sample size was large enough to draw tentative conclusions across the region as a whole, the small number of individuals per country does potentially distort results, as large shifts in percentage may come from relatively small movements of numbers.<ref name="study"></ref>
===ccTLD Registries and Registrars===
[[ccTLD]]s in countries like Iran, Morocco, and Tunisia publicly publish their registration data, yet many of their statistics have only figures on the day consulted and lack historic or [[IDN]] data. Other registries in the region do not publish any statistics. Therefore, the MEAC DNS Study team, which has been working more than fifteen years on a long-term project called the [[EURid-UNESCO World Report on Internationalised Domain Names]], reached out directly to its contacts -- the region's ccTLD registries -- for data. Therefore, all ccTLD registration data in the MEAC DNS Study, including IDN data, either results from direct registry contact between June and September 2015, or from publicly available information from registry websites.<ref name="study"></ref>
===gTLD Open Zone Files===
'''Entire Data Set'''
All gTLD and open zone file domains were captured in June 2015, producing about 156 million entries. For privacy purposes, the team avoided doing large-scale [[WHOIS]] lookups, and supplemented them only when unavoidable. They recorded the following metrics for each domain name:<ref name="study"></ref>
* IP address of the domain name
* Web page status code for the domain
* Script of the domain name itself
* Scripts contained in the web page for the domain where content exists in b)
* Geographical location of hosting for each domain name using the IP address and a lookup database - recording country, region and city for each
==References==
==References==