1. 25/11/2008ISOC AM AM Registry 2008 report Igor Mkrtumyan, imkrtumyan@amnic.net Hrant Dadivanyan, ran@styx.aic.net AM Registry ISOC AM

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5. 25/11/2008ISOC AM 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 %

6. 25/11/2008ISOC AM 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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8. 25/11/2008ISOC AM European statistics –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)

9. 25/11/2008ISOC AM 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)

10. 25/11/2008ISOC AM Registrars Arminco Web Xalt Netsys Dolphin Cornet ADC GlobalAr -requests from BeeLine and Ucom

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13. 25/11/2008ISOC AM Top Hosting Companies in Armenia (webhosting.info)

14. 25/11/2008ISOC AM 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)