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National domain zone expanding

07 January 2015 [13:56] - TODAY.AZ

/By AzerNews/

By Nigar Orujova

Today, Azerbaijani national domain zone .az has over 12,000 websites.

The national domain zone has registered 23,011 Internet resources, a report by WHOIS said on January 5.

By the end of 2014, the growth rate in the number of registered Internet resources in the domain zone stood at 11.2 percent.

Among the total number of registered sites in the national domain zone, 21,321 accounts for Internet resources which were registered in the domain of the first level. The figure is 10.1 percent more than what it was at the beginning of this year.

The report said, the most popular second-level domain is .com.az, with 1,008 websites or 27.9 percent increase. Third place went to the domain .edu.az with 214 sites. Last year, the number of registered sites in this domain increased by 16.9 percent.

The world's statistics shows that the total number of active domain names in the world has reached 280 million. The most populated domain zone is .com, which recorded more than 116.2 million domain. The second place goes to .tk, which registered more than 20.9 million names and the third one is -.net where you can find over 15.1 million sites.

Azerbaijani national zone officially began operations in August 1993. The cost of registering the domain .az is 20 manats (about $25), the cost of annual maintenance is the same.

Moreover, the volume of consumed incoming Internet traffic on the network the primary provider of Azerbaijan - the company Delta Telecom - at the end of 2014 has also increased by 50 percent and amounted to 150 gigabits, the company reported.

The dynamics of the network workload vary depending on the time of day, and the maximum load occurs in the evening - 140-150 gigabits. In the morning, this figure falls to 15 gigabits.

According to statistics from Delta Telecom, the volume of outgoing traffic as compared with the beginning of 2014 has increased from 20 to 30 gigabits. At present, the total capacity of AzNET segment exceeds 300 gigabits.

Traffic of Delta Telecom is divided among 27 telecommunications operators (public and private internet service providers, mobile operators and others).

The largest volume of Internet traffic delivered to end users fall to the public Internet service provider "BakinterNet" (29,21 percent), the second place with a share of 18.52 percent ranked "Aztelekom", the third - "Uninet" 10,03 percent as of January 5. The remaining 42.24 percent are distributed among other companies.

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