AusRegistry International wins lucrative Middle East Internet contracts

Melbourne based company AusRegistry International has just signed its third Middle Eastern contract to operate Internet infrastructure in the Middle East.

Navigating the Internet for people from non-English speaking backgrounds has just become a lot easier thanks to the ingenuity and expertise of Melbourne based domain name registry services provider AusRegistry International, who has just signed its third Middle Eastern contract to provide software to drive critical Internet infrastructure in the region.

AusRegistry International announced this month it has won a lucrative contract with the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of the Sultanate of Oman to operate software services for the .om Omani country code domain.

The Oman contract will encompass both the existing

The Oman contract will encompass both the existing .om domain and the planned .عÙ...ان Arabic script domain. This will be the first time Omanis will be able to access the Internet using their native language.

"We were the first company in the world to provide the research that enables Arabic script domain names and now we are at the absolute forefront of an Internet revolution that will ensure the continued improvement of Internet accessibility across all language groups. I am in the extreme proud to say that our Australian made research will now be supporting three Arabic script domains, to boot to five traditional country domains from around the world," AusRegistry International's CEO Adrian Kinderis said.

"Roughly 60 percent of the world's population are from regions where the Latin alphabet is not part of their native language, so you can see why domains with non-Latin scripts are an in the extreme important part of the Internet's future."

"In the last year we doubled our workforce to handle the influx of new business opportunities. We've as well expanded our operations by opening a new office in the United States and we are looking to open a new office in the Middle East."

Mr Kinderis said AusRegistry International is now then positioned to take advantage of the revolutionary changes set to take place across the Internet later this year, with the introduction of the new top level domain program. Likely to commence in mid 2011, the program will allow for companies, entrepreneurs and governments to own and operate a slice of Internet real estate, just like .com.

"So far, interest has been shown by major brands like Canon, for geographic locations like .sydney or .paris, and generic words like .web or .shop. Though new top level domains will likely cost more than $500,000 in application fees and operating costs, this unequalled prospect to secure a piece of Internet real estate is the most compelling possibility for technology the Internet has seen since its creation," Mr Kinderis said.

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