.հայ ( hy, Հայ, ''hay, hye'') is an

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(

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) for

Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia Western Asia, West Asia, or Southwest Asia, is the westernmost subregion of the larger geographical region ...

, designated for two-letter country code AM, intended for domain names in the

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Information

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (

ICANN The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN ) is an American multistakeholder group and nonprofit organization responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespac ...

) made a decision on

November 20 Events Pre-1600 * 284 – Diocletian Diocletian (; la, Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, grc, Διοκλητιανός, Diokletianós; c. 242/245 – 311/312), nicknamed ''Iovius'', was Roman emperor from 284 until his abdica ...

, 2014 to register the .հայ domain name. Support for .հայ

domain names is intended to promote the use of the Armenian keyboard globally, drive support for Armenian fonts on modern mobile devices, and generally promote use of the

online. A report published by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ( IANA) which works with the US government and ICANN stated that, "as the current operator of .AM ccTLD, the application has provided satisfactory details on the technical and operational infrastructure and expertise that will be used to operate the .հայ domain." The domain's punycode encoding is ''.xn--y9a3aq''.

References

External links

Armenia Network Information Centre

.հայ Registrar

Free .հայ domain registration
Internet in Armenia Mass media in Armenia հայ Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries members Computer-related introductions in 2014 {{compu-domain-stub