Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 5
By Huseyn Valiyev - Trend:
The number of registered websites with an .az domain zone increased by 11.2 percent as of 2014 and reaching 23,011 units, WHOIS resource reported Jan. 5.
Some 21,321 units of the total number of registered websites accounted for Internet resources registered in the domain at the first level. This is by 10.1 percent more compared to early 2015.
The most popular second level domain is .com.az, where some 1,008 websites were registered (27.9 percent growth). The third most popular is the edu.az domain with 214 websites.
The number of registered websites in .edu.az increased 16.9 percent in 2014.
The total number of active domains in the world hit 280 million units.
The most populated domain zone is .com where more than 116.2 million domains were registered, according to the world statistics. Whereas .tk takes second place with more than 20.9 million, in third place .net has over 15.1 million websites.
The national domain zone .az officially started operating on August 25, 1993. The registration of .az costs 20 AZN. The annual cost of technical support is the same.
The official exchange rate is 0.7844 AZN/USD Jan. 5.
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