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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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–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
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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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