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.am is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Armenia, a former republic of the Soviet Union.
Regulation
The registry for .am is operated by [ISOC-AM], the local chapter of the Internet Society.Regulatory notes
- Except for reserved names like .com.am, .net.am, .org.am and others, any person in the world can register a .am domain for a fee.
- Each domain name is subject to review. Generally each review takes 2 or 3 working days.
- For religious reasons, Armenian law prohibits its domain names from being used for obscene sites.
- The AM-NIC is moving over to IPv6 address compatiblity in line with the global DNS system.
- Unicode compatible names will not be instituted at AM-NIC until all issues related to IPv6 are resovled.
AM used as a Domain Name Hack
The domain name is popular (and thus economically valuable) due to it being a mnemonic for AM radio (other similar ccTLDs are .fm, .tv, .cd and .dj). Such unconventional usage of TLDs in domain names are known as domain hacks.External links
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