Mubasher: Bahrain’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), in collaboration with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), on Sunday announced plans to launch online registration for national domain names.
The step aims at ensuring the preservation of intellectual and commercial property rights for well-known trade makers locally and internationally, TRA said in a statement.
Currently, TRA is working on obtaining the necessary permissions to manage the Internationalised Domain Name.
“The Arabic language is the fastest growing on the Internet in terms of content. Arabic is also the fifth language in the world in terms of the number of speakers which is very important and reflects TRA’s keenness to provide a national domain promoting the development of websites with Arabic content,” Sheikh Nasser bin Mohamed Al Khalifa, acting general director of TRA, said.
TRA has adopted the registration model, which will result in competition between authorised registrars to provide the best services including smart applications and electronic registration.
The telecom entity noted that consumers will be able to register domain names (.bh & .البحرين) through several local and global online channels by the third quarter of 2019.
