.eg

.eg is the Latin alphabet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Egypt. Any entity who wants to register a domain name ending with  must have a local representative or the domain name has to be hosted on Egyptian DNS servers. Egypt's Arabic alphabet ccTLD is &lrm;.

Second-level domains
There are several second-level domains. Registrations are possible at the second level (directly under .eg) or at the third level beneath these names, with required documents sometimes differing depending on the one selected.
 * .ac.eg: Academic sites.
 * .com.eg: Commercial sites.
 * .edu.eg: Educational sites.
 * .egregistry.eg: top-level domain services
 * .eun.eg: Egyptian Universities Network.
 * .gov.eg: Governmental sites.
 * .info.eg: Information sector.
 * .mil.eg: Military sites.
 * .name.eg: Personal "name" websites.
 * .net.eg: Networking and IT services.
 * .org.eg: Egyptian non-governmental organizations.
 * .sci.eg: Scientific sites.
 * .sport.eg: Sports sites.
 * .tv.eg: Visual media.

Historical event
During the 2011 Egyptian protests, the domain was shut down by the government.