.am

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.am is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Armenia, a former republic of the Soviet Union.

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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 IP6 address compatiblity in line with the global DNS system.
Unicode compatible names will not be instituted at AM-NIC until all issues related to IP6 are resovled.

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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.

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