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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Azerbaijan's financial standing continues to strengthen as the country's foreign currency reserves have surged to $71 billion as of January 1, 2025, according to the Ministry of Finance. This figure, which includes reserves held by the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) and the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA), far exceeds the nation's external debt, which stands at a fraction of its reserves, specifically nearly 14 times less. This robust reserve position reflects Azerbaijan's fiscal stability and the government’s strategic economic management.
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According to operational data from the Ministry of Energy of Azerbaijan, in January 2025, the country produced 2.3 million tons of oil, including condensate, and 3.9 billion cubic meters of gas.
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The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has opened a representative office in Albania and is set to launch a specific project this year, the Albanian company "Albgaz" announced.
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"Azerbaijan is currently among 54 middle-income countries," said Shahmar Movsumov, head of the Economic Affairs and Innovative Development Policy Department of the Presidential Administration, during the presentation of the World Bank’s World Development Report 2024 in Baku on February 10.
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