سورية.

سورية. is the IDN ccTLD for Syria. It is managed by the National Agency for Network Services (NANS).

The domain “سورية” is represented in ASCII-compatible encoding according to the IDNA specification as “xn--ogbpf8fl”. The individual Unicode code points that comprise this string are U+0633 U+0648 U+0631 U+064A U+0629.

In Arabic language, the string has a meaning equivalent to “Syria” in English. Its pronunciation in English is transliterated as “Sourya”. The string is expressed using the Arabic script.

Delegation History

In 2009, the National Agency for Network Services was established as a governmental entity. It was created as a provision of the Digital Signature and Network Services law, which assigns the Agency responsibilities including managing the Syrian ccTLDs (including, specifically, internationalised top-level domains), and defining policies and rules for domain registration.

On 11 April 2010, an application was made to the "IDN Fast Track" process to have the string “سورية” recognised as representing the Syrian Arab Republic.

On 4 June 2010, review by the IDN Fast Track DNS Stability Panel found that "the applied-for strings ... present none of the threats to the stability or security of the DNS identified in [the IDN Fast Track implementation plan] ... and present an acceptably low risk of user confusion". The request for the string to represent the Syrian Arab Republic was subsequently approved.

On 5 October 2010, the National Agency for Network Services commenced a request to ICANN for delegation of “سورية” as a top-level domain, which was granted.

Rules and Restrictions

For the general rules and restrictions, refer to the page for the ASCII ccTLD for Syria, .sy.

Characters

For formulating domain names under the ".سورية" domain, the names must meet the following conditions:

• it must include only Arabic letters;
• it must start with a letter and not end with a " " and must not contain two consecutive hyphens;
• the number of characters in the name must not exceed 63 characters and must not be less than two characters;
• words must not be connected to each other, and the name must not contain spaces. Spaces can be replaced by a hyphen;
• the name must not contain the shadda character or diacritics;
• the name must not contain the elongation character or the "ـــ" character.
• it must include only Arabic letters.

Internationalized Domain Name

Country code top-level domain