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AM Registry
2008 report
Igor Mkrtumyan, [email protected]
Hrant Dadivanyan, [email protected]
AM Registry
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Total number of domains in .AM
12000
8000
6000
4000
2000
Years
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2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
0
<2000
Number of domains
10000
Total number of domains in .AM registered by
residents
6000
Number of domains
5000
4000
3000
2000
1000
0
<2000 2000
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2001 2002
2003 2004
Years
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2005 2006
2007
2008
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AMNIC Name Policies:
- all domain names are open for free registration
- no trademark protection
IDN: no support from local community
ENUM: Arminco
Number of domains per 1000 of population
Armenia - 3.125
Average European – 32.5
Growth Rate 2008: approximately- 30%
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Conclusions
 The number of Internet domain names in AM TLD
is increasing slow.
 High percent of the non-resident registrations
Probable reasons:
 High prices of communication lines?
 Non-favorable conditions for small and middle
businesses?
 High prices of domain names?
.am $43.00
Average European 12.4 euro(2008) ZookNic
.info $1.49
.org $2.49
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Aggregate Registration and Price Trend
Price (Euros) vs Domains
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Jan03
Jul03
Jan04
Jul04
Jan05
Jul05
Time
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Jan06
Jul06
Jan07
Jul- Jan07
08
Domains per
1,000 pop.
Price (Euros)
European statistics
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Majority private structure (55%)
Average growth since 2005: 98%
Almost 90% strictly «First come first served»
21% only under second level domain
60% of registrations takes less than 1 hour
65% takes less than 4 hours to be «live»
72% works with a registrar system
46% requires presence in the country
60% does not allow IDN registrations (yet)
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AMNIC developments
 Standard whois server (2004)
 Major hardware upgrade of the server
 IPv6-ready services (2006-2008)
 TSIG - signed transactions (2006-2008)
 Registrar interface (2007)
 FAQ rewrite (2007)
 FAQ on Armenian and Russian (2008)
 Measures of fighting against cybersquatters
(2008)
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Registrars
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Arminco
Web
Xalt
Netsys
Dolphin
Cornet
ADC
GlobalAr
-requests from BeeLine and Ucom
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DNR Market Share
Arminco
11% 1%
5%
8%
Web
Netsys
75%
Xalt
Dolphin
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Total GTLD in Armenia 2005 (523),
2006(1155), 2007(1291)
137
COM
21
NET
126
ORG
178
829
INFO
BIZ
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Top Hosting Companies in Armenia
(webhosting.info)
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Plans
Fighting cybersquatters
Legal problems (Artfood)
Major software upgrade (planned to the end of 2008)
IPv6-ready data - whois, application form, etc (planned to
the end of 2008)
Statistics of services usage (planed to the end of 2008)
Service monitoring (planed to the end of 2008)
Next steps of fighting cybersquatters (planned to the end
of 2008)
DNSSEC (planned to the 2009)
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