Egypt is making a bit of history by being the first country to launch an Internet domain name using the Aribc script. The announcement comes not long after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) decided to allow non-Latin top level domains.

Casting a cloud over Egypt's run towards the record books, Reporters Sans Frontieres, which campaigns for freedom of press, had some harsh words for the Egyptian government as it relates to Internet censorship.

"Egypt is one of the enemies of the Internet and if Internet governance requires a degree of regulation, it should be of a liberal nature and not the kind that the Egyptian government would like to impose," Reporters wrote.

The group went on to say that Egyptian police recently arrested and beat two young bloggers, Mohamed Adel, 20, and Amr Osama, 19, along with their lawyer, Amr Ezz, for "spreading false news and rumors liable to disturb the peace."

About 15 million of Eypt's 80 million residents are Internet users. And according to Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, even though there are over 300 million Arabic speakers worldwide, fewer than one percent of online content is in Arabic.