.am
Encyclopedia
.am is the Internet
country code
top-level domain
(ccTLD) for Armenia
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Regulatory notes:
and .tv
ccTLDs), and the ability to form English
words ending in "am" — e.g. the mobile photo sharing service Instagram
uses the Armenian domain name Instagr.am. Such unconventional usage of TLD
s in domain names are called domain hack
s.
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
country code
Country code
Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The best known of these is ISO 3166-1...
top-level domain
Top-level domain
A top-level domain is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet. The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains in lower levels, it is the last part of the domain name, that is, the last label of a...
(ccTLD) for Armenia
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
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Regulation
The registry for .am is operated by ISOC-AM, the local chapter of the Internet SocietyInternet Society
The Internet Society or ISOC is an international, nonprofit organization founded during 1992 to provide direction in Internet related standards, education, and policy...
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Regulatory notes:
- Any person in the world can register a .am, .com.am, .net.am, .org.am domain for a fee.
- Each domain name is subject to review. Generally each review takes 2 or 3 working days.
- Armenian law prohibits its domain nameDomain nameA domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet. Domain names are formed by the rules and procedures of the Domain Name System ....
s from being used for spam, pornography, or terrorism sites. - The AM-NIC was moved over to IPv6IPv6Internet Protocol version 6 is a version of the Internet Protocol . It is designed to succeed the Internet Protocol version 4...
address compatibility in line with the global DNS system. - UnicodeUnicodeUnicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...
compatible names will not be instituted at AM-NIC until all issues related to IPv6IPv6Internet Protocol version 6 is a version of the Internet Protocol . It is designed to succeed the Internet Protocol version 4...
are resolved.
Usage in domain hacks
Domains within the .am ccTLD enjoy popularity due to the connection to AM radio (similar to the .fm.fm
.fm is the country code top-level domain for the Federated States of Micronesia, a group of islands located in the Pacific Ocean.Except for reserved names like .com.fm, .net.fm, .org.fm and others, any person in the world can register a .fm domain for a fee, much of the income from which goes to...
and .tv
.tv
The domain name .tv is the Internet country code top-level domain for the islands of Tuvalu.Except for reserved names like com.tv, net.tv, org.tv and others, any person may register second-level domains in tv...
ccTLDs), and the ability to form English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
words ending in "am" — e.g. the mobile photo sharing service Instagram
Instagram
Instagram is a free photo sharing application that allows users to take photos, apply a filter, and share it on the service or a variety of other social networking services, including Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, Flickr , and Posterous...
uses the Armenian domain name Instagr.am. Such unconventional usage of TLD
TLD
TLD is a three-letter initialism that may stand for:* Top-level domain, the last part of an Internet domain name* Tag Library Descriptor, an XML document that maps JSP tags to their handlers or associated files...
s in domain names are called domain hack
Domain hack
A domain hack is an unconventional domain name that combines domain levels, especially the top-level domain , to spell out the full "name" or title of the domain. Examples include del.icio.us , goo.gl and fold.it...
s.