Jordan's Domain in Arabic Approved

Finally, Jordan's Arabic country code top level domain (ccTLD) has been approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Until recently, domains of the websites were restricted to Latin characters.

The new Arabic Internet address for Jordan will be ".الاردن", and will not replace the more famous ".jo" but Jordanian websites that will have Arabic domains (if any) can use the new ccTLD. Some examples: الملكة-رانيا.الاردن for queenrania.jo and الغد.الاردن for alghad.jo

Of course these websites have to re-register themselves under an Arabic name by the National Information Technology Center (NITC): the responsible of Internet domains assignment and registration in Jordan.

Non-Latin domains became a trend recently, most Arab countries asked and applied for domain names in Arabic, back in the last Internet Governance Forum, Egypt was the first country to announce an Arabic ccTLD followed by Saudi Arabia.

In my own point of view, I have some doubts about the success of Arabic domains in Jordan, they are not easy to type and people are not familiar with them (in addition with some other Arabic-related issues). In addition, there's a typo in the Jordanian domain: It should be "الأردن" with Hamzeh and not "الاردن".