Azerbaijan, Baku, April 16 / Trend, H.Veliyev /
A total of 9,796Internet resources have been registered in the national .az domain, WHOIS reports
In the first quarter, the number of registered internet resources made up 6.8 percent. Some of 8,825 registered websites fell to internet resources registered in the domain on the first level. Some of 523 sites registered in the second level domain fell on com.az and 61 internet resources were registered in the .gov.az state domain zone.
As of Apr. 16 of 2010, the total amount of active domain worldwide made up 117,736,758, which are 3,998,037 more compared to early 2010. Some of 86,562,532 resources have registered in the most populated domain com. Domain net with 12,943,735 resources ranks the second place. Domain .org has ranked to the third place with 8,307,201 resources.
The .az national zone officially began operations on Aug. 25, 1993. Among the post-Soviet countries, Ukraine was the only country, which had its own domain - .ua (1992). The zone .ru was registered on Apr. 7, 1994, and most other domains from the former Soviet countries were registered in the same year.
Registration in the .az domain costs 20 manat and the same amount is to be paid for technical support of the domain.