1. Igor Mkrtumyan <imkrtumyan@isoc.am> AM Registry ISOC AM
Past, Present and Statistics
Igor Mkrtumyan
AM Registry
ISOC AM
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2. History
1993 Founders of the American University of Armenia (AUA), Armen Der-Kiureghian, Mihran Agbabian, Stepan Karamardian together with support group including Richard Youatt, Ruben Nahapetian, Alexander Glockner decided to help Armenia to create an Internet governing body. AUA sent a representative to INET’93.
As a result of the meetings with ISOC high ranked officials at INET’93 a plan was developed.
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3. 1995 Establishment of AMNIC, supported by the main local ISP Arminco
History
1994 Establishment of Armenian Internet Users Group, an NGO (Local Internet Community), later renamed to ISOC AM
1995 Establishment of AMNIC, supported by the main local ISP Arminco
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4. Starting of AMNIC operations as AM TLD Registry 1997
History
1996
Negotiations with IANA, Jon Postel. Getting rights to manage AM TLD. ISOC AM – manager of AM TLD. Bringing the AM zone file to AMNIC server
Starting of AMNIC operations as AM TLD Registry
1997
Incorporation of AMNIC ( into ISOC AM
Starting of AM Web Whois operations
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5. New law on NGO requiring re-registration
History
2000
New law on NGO requiring re-registration
AMIUG was re-registered under the name of Internet Society ISOC AM (
Ministry of Justice clarification forbidding NGO’s to conduct commercial activity
Establishment of ISOC AM daughter enterprise Internet Technology Center (ITC) LLC. Bylaws of ITC: all incomes excluding expenses are to be transferred to ISOC AM
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6. Introduction of the institute of “Accredited Registrars”
History
2000 (continued)
Introduction of the institute of “Accredited Registrars”
Setting rules for becoming Registrars
Signing contracts between ITC and Registrars (About 30% of registration fees are funded to ITC)
Introduction of Renewal Fee
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7. Introduction of Internet (offered) contract between
History
2003
Introduction of Internet (offered) contract between
non-resident Registrant and Registrar
WIPO model contract
UDRP for non-residents
2004
UDRP for residents
Waiving the registration fee
Decreasing renewal fee for non-residents
Elimination of reserved domain name list
Up to now about 4,500 domains are registered
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8. Non for profit organization Local Internet Community
ISOC AM
Non for profit organization
Local Internet Community
60 members representing major universities, libraries, research and academic networks, ISPs, content providers, international foundations, individuals, representative of the government
Member of CENTR
Grantee of Eurasia Foundation and OSI
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9. Advantages of CENTR membership - best practice documents
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Advantages of CENTR membership
- best practice documents
- models to follow
- access to information
- analytical documents
- surveys
- experience of advanced members
- being in the mainstream of European TLD management policy
- European expertise
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10. Incorporated centers - AMNIC
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Incorporated centers - AMNIC
- Training Center - E-business Center
AMNIC – AM TLD Registry
Training Center
- W2K, Linux network administrator training
- CIW Authorized Training Partner
- E-commerce courses
- Telecentres managers and staff training
E-business Center
- Webshop (
- Marketplace (
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11. - the best channel for country DNS server Close cooperation with GIPI
ISOC AM
Cooperation with the most powerful ISP
- the best channel for country DNS server
Close cooperation with GIPI
INET conference participation
CENTR GA participation (admin. contact)
RIPE meeting participation (tech. contact)
Country GAC representative (Head of Department of the Ministry of Transport and Communications) was elected to the Council of ISOC AM
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12. No formal agreement with ICANN
Relations with ICANN
No formal agreement with ICANN
Supporting the idea that ICANN should concentrate on technical problems
Supporting the idea of paying for IANA functions only
If a contract of national registry with ICANN will ever be signed it must be bilateral. Government shouldn’t be a part of contract.
ccNSO
We want to follow CENTR recommendations concerning the membership in ccNSO
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13. wwTLD
We think that wwTLD should be a lightweight organization consisted of regional organization leaders, namely AF, AP, LAC, EU, NA
We think that any national registry should necessarily be a member of one of the regional organizations.
Small registries can not participate in many organizations (it is not only the fees but manpower too).
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14. Registration fees waived
Registration Changes
Registration fees waived
Only annual (renewal) fees left (domain name is not owned but rented)
Contract between resident Registrant and Registrar (hard copy)
Contract between non-resident Registrant and Registrar (Internet option)
Still different renewal fees for residents and non- residents (but diminished difference)
Higher fees for non-residents acting as customs duty preventing mass purchase of domains
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15. AM TLD organizational structure
ITC LLC
Manager (ISOC AM)
Registry (AMNIC)
Registrar
Registrant
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24. Needs: Technical help on IDN, EPP, ENUM, DNSSEC
Future plans and needs
IPv6
IDN
EPP
ENUM
DNSSEC
YerIX
Needs: Technical help on IDN, EPP, ENUM, DNSSEC
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