Over 21,000 domains registered in am zone

YEREVAN, September 12. / ARKA /. Some 21,500 domains are registered today in the Armenian am zone, deputy chairman of Internet Society public organization Girogy Saghiyan said today.

"This is a very small figure when compared with Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, which have nearly as many population as we. In these countries, the number of registered domain names in their zone is over 100,000, «said Saghiyan.

However, on the regional scale, Armenia is a leader because Georgia, for example, has about 14,000 thousand domains and Azerbaijan about 15,000.

"The number of domains in am zone is growing every year.  In 2000 we had only 616 domains – a ridiculous figure compared with today's data, in 2004 the number rose to 3,576.

The annual fee for owning a domain in am zone is 12,000 drams (about $ 30). -0-