أطلس الحوكمة العربية للنطاقات

Arabic DNS Regulatory Atlas 2026.

An independent conformance and market review of the Arabic-script namespace: every published registry LGR diffed against a unified reference, five root zones analyzed, nine growth clusters measured across the ICANN CZDS year.

EDITION 2026.10 · GENERATED 2026-10-04 · ENGINE: ICANN lgr-core 7.0.1 · LICENSE: CC BY-SA 4.0 · REFERENCE LGR: download XML

01 — Executive summary

The year Arabic gTLDs grew up

Demand for Arabic-script generic TLDs outpaced the registrar baseline all year — led by .شبكة (+32.9%) and .ارامكو (+28.3%) — while the healthcare cluster compounded double digits and .insurance (+36.1%) and .physio (+32.8%) spiked. Yet the regulatory layer lagged: the published LGRs disagree with each other, one carries an outright defect, and the largest Arabic TLD is still frozen in name-collision limbo. This Atlas quantifies all of it, and the unified reference LGR we filed with ICANN is the proposed fix.

02 — Findings

Conformance & collision

Severity reflects publication risk: F-01 fails schema validation today; F-02 blocks cross-registry harmonization; F-03 freezes the flagship Arabic gTLD; F-04 is a regulatory gap.

03 — Demand

CZDS growth detail

Cluster	TLD	Jan 2026	Sep 2026	Δ

Source: ICANN Centralized Zone Data Service user counts (ZFA passwords), 2026-01 vs 2026-09 snapshots.

04 — Corpus

Zone-file intelligence

Zone	Owner names	Note

05 — Registry LGRs

Table catalog & downloads

Registry table	Script / version	XML

All files are parseable by the ICANN LGR Portal ("Upload LGR") and by lgr-core. The unified reference is our RFC 7940 draft for ICANN IDN Program review.

06 — Method

How this was built

1. Collect   every published Arabic-script LGR from the IANA IDN table registry
2. Parse     ICANN lgr-core 7.0.1 — XMLParser + RNG schema validation
3. Diff      lgr_compare.py DIFF/UNION across all pairwise table combinations
4. Validate  the unified reference LGR round-trips against the LoGS AR v4.0 baseline
5. Measure   CZDS Jan→Sep 2026 password deltas, 9 TLD clusters
6. Inventory decode 21 root-zone files (574,022 owner names) for collision & squat signals

Reproducible: every artifact ships with this report — tables under /lgr/, raw aggregates under /api/data. Findings F-01…F-04 are also embedded in the reference LGR's <meta><description> so they travel with the XML.