Introduced 1990 | Status Active | |
TLD type Country code top-level domain Registry Egyptian Universities Network Sponsor Egyptian Universities Network Intended use Entities connected with Egypt |
.eg is the Latin alphabet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Egypt. Any entity who wants to register a domain name ending with .eg
must have a local representative or the domain name has to be hosted on Egyptian DNS servers. Egypt's Arabic alphabet ccTLD is .مصر
. During the 2011 Egyptian protests, domain .eg was shut down by the government.
Second-level domains
There are eleven second-level domains. Registrations are possible at the second level (directly under .eg) or at the third level beneath these names.
Examples of domain names registered at the second level: nic.eg, bibalex.eg, coke.eg, vodafone.eg, nile.eg.
References
.eg Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA