Held a meeting to exchange views on the progress made by UAEnic and to discuss mutual areas of cooperation to benefit the Internet community across the UAE.

UAEnic, a registry administrator of .ae ccTLD, today announced its discussion with ICANN on domain name developments.

According to UAEnic, the meeting was held to exchange views on the progress made by UAEnic and to discuss mutual areas of cooperation to benefit the Internet community across the UAE and the Region. Abdulla Hashim, UAEnic manager and John Crain, Chief Technical Officer of ICANN were among the top officials who attended this meeting.

During the meeting, UAEnic gave the members of the ICANN delegation insights into the IDN initiatives in the region and particularly with the testing of Arabic domain names. UAEnic initially started working with counterparts in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Oman to develop domain names in the Arabic language.

The company also announced a workshop which will take place in Dubai on the 20th and 21st of November 2006. Issues such as DNSSEC, IDNs, interfacing with IANA and best current practices for registry operations and policies, are all going to be addressed in this workshop.

"This meeting with ICANN is significant and has helped to raise awareness on both sides about the developments in the Middle East and in the UAE in particular. I am very happy that the ICANN staff was impressed by the infrastructure setup of UAEnic including the expertise of the team responsible for the day to day operations. This is testimony to the constant efforts made by UAEnic to enhance its infrastructure and processes in order to be in line with the latest international technology standards and best practices to serve the local and international Internet communities," said Abdulla Hashim, Manager, UAEnic.