August 25 national (top) domain. Az turns 20 years old.
Tomorrow about this conference will be held with the participation of international experts. Leaders are expected to attend ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) and representatives of the national domain administrators of Ukraine and Russia.
According to the Ministry of Communications of Azerbaijan is the second country in the CIS after Ukraine has registered its national domain. Over the past period of time the .Az domain administrator Intrans Company has established cooperation with the local 5 and 7 foreign registrars. At the same time, the company failed to implement projects multilingual system, the internationalization of domain names (IDN), to establish a single national service system to bring the cost of registration and technical support to international standards. She has also launched projects to L-root DNS root server in Azerbaijan who made the Azerbaijan part of the global Internet security, a project to develop an automated system of registration of. As a result, for the last period in the .Az zone there were registered 20,000 domains, 39% (7760 domains) of which are made up of various organizations, the others - individuals. Over the past ten years, the number of national domain has increased almost 5 times, and since 2009 there has been a rapid growth of the number of domains.
At the next stage, the company provides several services running, including service by sending SMS and e-mail notifications to users to prevent the occurrence of the loss domain whois service activation through SMS, create a "personal office" for the owners of domain names, designed to manage their domain names and email notification preferences and the system of "control time domain." - 17D-
Economics
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Vahid Magerramov, Head of the Public Association for Support of Agrarian Reforms, has raised concerns over rising consumer prices in Azerbaijan, warning that the inflation trend could have serious economic consequences for the country.
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Silk production in Azerbaijan decreased by 32.9% year-on-year in the first eight months of 2024, reaching 239.4 tons, according to data released by the State Statistics Committee. The decline was attributed to a reduction in the number of silkworm seeds distributed to farmers, reflecting a longer-term trend in the sector's contraction, noted agricultural expert Vahid Maharramov.
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Sunniya Durrani-Jamal has officially taken office as the new Country Director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Azerbaijan, succeeding Candice Mcdagan, who held the position since 2021. Durrani-Jamal brings over 25 years of professional experience, including 16 years in senior roles at ADB, to her new position. She previously served as ADB’s Regional Director in Cambodia and Senior Advisor to the Vice President for East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific.
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Azerbaijan's drive to diversify its economy is faltering, despite years of policy announcements and state programs aimed at reducing reliance on the energy sector. The country has struggled to implement effective diversification measures, leaving it vulnerable to external economic pressures, analysts said.
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