Wael Nasr


Country:	Bahrain
Email:	Wael@comdots.co
Website:	[WiseDots.com WiseDots.com]
LinkedIn:	] [1] Wael Nasr]

Wael Nasr is SVP of WiseDots LLC . He joined WiseDots on Oct 2010 .Wael has previously been Business Development Director at i-DNS.net and a a researcher at Stanford University.

Education and Career[edit | edit source]

Mr. Nasr graduated from Stanford University with a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering and from the American University in Cairo with a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science among other degrees. He then Started working on IDN technology in the year 1999 and tested the first Arabic IDN domain name ever between Egypt and Singapore in the year 2000. He has since then working on the standardization and commercial aspects for Arabic TLD and lead authored some of the key RFCs addressing the linguistic and technical aspects of Arabic IDN. Mr. Nasr was the vice chairman of the Arabic Internet Naming consortium under King Abdullah of Jordan. He also worked with Dr. Wolfgang Gentzsch PCAST Member and Kevin Wilson ex CFO of ICANN during the course of this work. He was behind some of the Arabic TLD launches recently. Wael is currently working on TLD/industry interface technologies as well as Arabic Email addresses technology.

References[edit | edit source]

Wael Nasr AbdelAti et al, " ARABIC DOMAIN NAMES SYSTEM (ADNS) REQUEST FOR COMMENTS ", UN, New York, 2003 .

Wael Nasr AbdelAti et al, " Guidelines for an Arabic Domain Name System (ADNS)", IETF, Los Angeles, 2008.

Wael Nasr AbdelAti, "Tld Mapping for the Arabic domain Name system ", Singapore,2004

Articles and Press Coverage[edit | edit source]

[ http://www.i-dns.net/newsroom/news/I-EG010326-01.html.en wael] [ http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/participation-of-i-dnsnet-international-in-the-arabic-internet-names-consortium-ainc-71823417.html] [ http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/27/071115 ] [ http://lars.kanngard.com/news/MINC%20Founders%20meeting%20AINC.html ] [ http://classic.aawsat.com/details.asp?article=235704&issueno=9310#.VJUN5sACc ] [ http://classic.aawsat.com/details.asp?article=29075&issueno=8134#.VJUOIsACc ]