A milestone moment for web surfers who primarily speak Hebrew or anyone else whose keyboard is stuck on the Northwest Semitic language setting.
As of Tuesday at 12pm Israel time, you can now register internet domain names in Hebrew, with pre-existing extensions like co.il, .org.il and .ac.il, or the new extension ישראל. (.Israel), which is to be recognized as the top-level Internet domain of Israel.
After receiving approval from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in 2020, the availability of Hebrew domain names has been long-awaited by some and completely forgotten about by others, but the fact remains that those wishing to claim a URL in the modernized liturgical language of Judaism can now do so.
“Allocating the .Israel extension in Hebrew at the top-level domain of the Internet, and the possibility of registering domain names under this extension, will open up for Internet users in Israel a new layer of activity and access in the language spoken by the people,” said Yoram HaCohen, CEO of the Israeli Internet Association (IIA).
“Allocating the .Israel extension in Hebrew at the top-level domain of the Internet, and the possibility of registering domain names under this extension, will open up for Internet users in Israel a new layer of activity and access in the language spoken by the people.”
Yoram HaCohen, CEO of the Israeli Internet Association
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