Network Working Group E. Der-Danieliantz Request for Comments: 2053 AM Network Information Center Category: Informational October 1996
The AM (Armenia) Domain
Status of this Memo
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The AM Domain
The AM Domain is an official Internet top-level domain of Armenia.
AM is the ISO-3166 2-letter country code for the Republic of Armenia and thus the AM Domain is established as a top-level domain and registered with the InterNIC the same way other country domains are.
Naming StrUCture
The AM Domain hierarchy is flat. This means that any organization may be registered directly under the AM TLD. Example: arminco.am.
However, subdomains are allowed, such as ORG and MIL, as well as CO and AC.
Please note that MIL.AM and GOV.AM domains are reserved by the Ministry of Defense and The Government of Armenia, respectively. Other domains may be reserved for appropriate organizations by contacting AM Network Information Center at HOSTMASTER@AMNIC.NET.
Registration
There are two types of registrations (1) Delegation, where a branch of the AM Domain is delegated to an organization running name servers to support that branch; or (2) Direct Registration, in which the information is put directly into the main database.
In Direct Registration there are two cases: (a) an ip-host (with an IP address), and (b) non-IP host (for example, a UUCP host). Any particular registration will involve any one of these three situations.
The registration is performed by the AM Network Information Center, national Internet registry of Armenia. For more information about AM Network Information Center, please visit:
http://www.amnic.net
Requirements
Anyone requesting to register a host in the AM Domain is sent a copy of the "AM second-level domain registration template". It is necessary to fill out this template and send via Internet e-mail to HOSTMASTER@AMNIC.NET for consideration.
The AM Domain template, is similar to the InterNIC Domain template, but it is not the same. To request a copy of the AM Domain template, send a message to HOSTMASTER@AMNIC.NET.
References
[1] Stahl, M., "Domain Administrators Guide", RFC1032, SRI International, November 1987.
[2] Lottor, M., "Domain Administrators Operations Guide" RFC1033, SRI International, November 1987.
[3] Mockapetris, P., "Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities", STD 13, RFC1034, ISI, November 1987.
[4] Mockapetris, P., "Domain Names - Implementation and Specification", STD 13, RFC1035, ISI, November 1987.
[5] Dunlap, K., "Name Server Operations Guide for Bind, Release 4.3", UC Berkeley, SMM:11-3.
[6] Partridge, C., "Mail Routing and the Domain Name System", STD 14, RFC974, BBN, January 1986.
[7] Albitz, P., C. Liu, "DNS and Bind" Help for UNIX System Administrators, O'Reilly and Associates, Inc., October 1992.
[8] Reynolds, J., and J. Postel, "Assigned Numbers", STD 2, RFC1700, ISI, October 1994.
Security Considerations
Security issues are not discussed in this memo.
Author's Address
Edgar Der-Danieliantz AM Network Information Center c/o Arminco Limited Mashtotz Avenue 51 Yerevan, ARMENIA
