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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear All,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">SaudiNIC is pleased to inform you that it has published the following document:
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>Title:<span style="">
</span><span class="SpellE">SaudiNIC’s</span> Best Practices in Supporting and Managing Arabic Domain Names</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>Date:<span style="">
</span>August 2017<span style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>Version :<span style="">
</span>1.0</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span>Link:<span style="">
</span><a href="http://www.nic.sa/docs/SaudiNIC-BP-Supporting%20and%20Managing%20Arabic%20Domain%20Names%20-%2020170815.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.nic.sa/docs/SaudiNIC-BP-Supporting%20and%20Managing%20Arabic%20Domain%20Names%20-%2020170815.pdf</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The aim of this <span class="SpellE">SaudiNIC's</span> best practice is to outline and summarize some best practices and lessons learned in providing registration services and managing Arabic domain names (ADN). The prime intended audiences
of this document are Arabic IDN (<span class="SpellE">gTLD</span> or <span class="SpellE">
ccTLD</span>) registries. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The document is heavily prepared based on <span class="SpellE">
SaudiNIC’s</span> experiences that expands over a period of time exceeds more than 15 years.
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<p class="MsoNormal">SaudiNIC is considered as one of the pioneer supporter for IDN in general and Arabic domain names in particular.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailAutoSig"><span style="">With best regards,</span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style="">Raed Alfayez</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style="">______________</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style="">Director of SaudiNIC, CITC</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style="">Tel: +966-11-4618216<span style="">
</span>-<span style=""> </span>Fax: +966-11-4519497</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style="">www.nic.sa</span></span></p>
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