The Arabic Internet Names Consortium (AINC), under the patronage of the Government of the Republic of Tunisia, H.E. Minister of Communication Technologies Mr. Ahmed Friaa & Dr Ferial Béji, President and Managing Director of The Tunisian Internet Agency (ATI) are organizing the Fourth Arabic Internet Names Consortium (AINC) Meeting, the Second Arab ccTLD meeting and the Third Arabic Domain Name seminar.

AINC is an international organization drawing its membership and soliciting participation from ccTLD managers, organizations and individuals worldwide in an inclusive way. It is founded for the facilitation of the internationalization of the Internet for all Arabic speaking people of the world, allowing access without linguistic barriers at all levels.

The objective of AINC is to coordinate efforts to develop and deploy Arabic Domain Names system and applications. This non-commercial coordination includes providing users with the capability of using Arabic language and its standard character set to write domain names in Arabic and navigate the Internet. AINC's main objective is to Arabize domain names, as the present domain names system (DNS) accepts only Latin letters URLs.

The Arabic language currently is one of the few languages that could be used for registering domain names, together with other international languages and in fact consumers can now resolve & browse URLs in Arabic in most of the Middle East.

Many representatives of Arab government ministries, governmental and non-governmental international bodies and diverse business interests will be represented and engaged in dialogue on the many interesting issues which the Arabization of the Internet raises, as well as other ICANN & ccTLD matters. Your participation in this event will help to insure a full and active discussion of all relevant issues, and that all points of view of the Arab business community are taken into consideration.