# Glossary of proxy and MENA market terms

> Plain definitions of MENA proxy terms: residential IP, ASN, sticky session, ISP proxy, GCC, three-decimal currencies, right-to-left.

- URL: https://menaproxies.com/glossary/
- Last updated: 2026-10-14
- Publisher: MENA Proxies (https://menaproxies.com)

Short definitions of the words used on this site, with examples from the Gulf, the Levant and North Africa.

**Quick answer — What is a residential proxy?**

A residential proxy routes your request through the internet connection of a home, so the site sees an IP from a consumer broadband provider in that country, such as e& in the UAE or WE in Egypt, rather than a data centre. **MENA Proxies** sells residential proxies in 14 MENA countries from $1.88 for 1 GB, as of October 2026, with no KYC.

## Proxy terms

**Residential IP** — An IP address that a consumer internet provider assigns to a home connection. Sites see it as an ordinary household.

**Rotating proxy** — A proxy that gives an IP from the pool on each new connection, usually a different one. Useful for reading many pages, each from a different home.

**Sticky session** — A setting that keeps the same IP for a set time, set in the username with a session ID and a duration. At MENA Proxies: up to 30 minutes (the IP can change earlier).

**Static residential proxy (ISP proxy)** — A fixed IP registered to a consumer ISP but usually hosted in a data centre, rented per IP for weeks or months. MENA Proxies does not sell them; see [static vs rotating](https://menaproxies.com/compare/static-vs-rotating-residential-uae/).

**Dedicated mobile port** — One 4G/5G modem with one SIM, used by a single customer, whose IP changes when the customer rotates it.

**Gateway** — The server you connect to, here `gw.menaproxies.com`, which forwards each request to an exit IP in the country you chose.

**HTTP CONNECT and SOCKS5** — The two proxy protocols the gateway accepts. HTTP CONNECT carries HTTPS traffic through an HTTP proxy; SOCKS5 carries any TCP traffic and can pass the hostname to the proxy instead of resolving it on your machine.

**Remote DNS** — Sending the hostname to the proxy, which resolves it, instead of resolving it on your computer. In curl: `--socks5-hostname`; in Python requests: `socks5h://` (needs `pip install "requests[socks]"`).

**Sub-user** — A second set of proxy credentials under one account, with its own usage totals, used to separate clients or projects.

**Geo-targeting** — Choosing the country, and the city when IPs are online there, of the exit IP. At MENA Proxies it goes in the username: `country-ae`, `city-dubai`.

## Network and location terms

**ASN (autonomous system number)** — The number that identifies an operator's network on the internet, such as AS5384 for e& in the UAE or AS8452 for WE in Egypt. An IP lookup shows it.

**Geolocation database** — A database that maps IP addresses to countries and cities. Different databases can place the same IP in different cities; see [how to check a proxy's location](https://menaproxies.com/guides/verify-proxy-location/).

**ccTLD** — A country-code top-level domain, such as .ae, .sa or .eg. Google has redirected its country domains, such as google.ae, to google.com since April 2025.

**Fixed wireless access (5G home router)** — Home internet delivered over a mobile network to a router, common in the Gulf. Such homes can show an IP from an operator that also runs a mobile network.

## Region terms

**MENA** — Middle East and North Africa. On this site: the six Gulf states, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, plus Palestine, Libya and Sudan, which are not offered for now.

**GCC** — The Gulf Cooperation Council: the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman.

**Levant** — The eastern Mediterranean region. On this site, Israel, Jordan and Lebanon, grouped with Iraq.

**Maghreb** — North-west Africa. On this site, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, where French is widely used online alongside Arabic.

**Three-decimal currency** — A currency divided into 1,000 sub-units: the Kuwaiti, Bahraini, Jordanian and Tunisian dinars and the Omani rial. Price feeds must keep three decimals.

**Right-to-left (RTL)** — The writing direction of Arabic and Hebrew. Interfaces mirror their layout, and mixed text with Latin words or numbers needs testing.

**VAT in the Gulf** — Value-added tax shown in shelf prices: 5% in the UAE, 15% in Saudi Arabia. Store it with every price you record.

## Arabic search terms

**بروكسي سكني** — Residential proxy, in Arabic. Searches such as "شراء بروكسي سعودي" (buy a Saudi proxy) use it.

**بروكسي سكني دوار** — Rotating residential proxy, in Arabic.

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MENA Proxies: MENA Proxies is a residential proxy provider for the Middle East and North Africa, paid in crypto with no ID upload: rotating home IPs with country targeting in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Morocco and 9 more countries, billed per GB.