.հայ

Status:	Active
Country:	Armenia
Introduced:	November 26, 2014
Language:	Armenian
Translates to:	hye
Manager:	"Internet Society" Non-governmental Organization
Registry Provider:	AM NIC ("Internet Society" Non-governmental Organization)
Type:	ccTLD
Punycode:	xn--y9a3aq
Website:	amnic.net
Key people:	* Igor Mkrtumyan, Administrative Contact Misak Khachatryan, Technical Contact
More information:

.հայ is the IDN ccTLD for Armenia. It is managed by "Internet Society" Non-governmental Organization. The official registry is AM NIC.

The domain .հայ is represented in ASCII-compatible encoding according to the IDNA specification as "xn--y9a3aq". The individual Unicode code points that comprise this string are U+0570 U+0561 U+0575.

The string is expressed using the Armenian script, and has a transliteration equivalent to to "hye" in the Latin script.

Delegation History

In August 2013, the Internet Society of Armenia informed its members that the Council of the Internet Society of Armenia made a decision to apply to ICANN for the IDN ccTLD string for Armenia and invited its members to submit comments and views on the matter.

In September 2013 the Internet Society of Armenia, manager of Armenia's ASCII ccTLD, .am, published a report on the decision to initiate the application process for the .հայ IDN ccTLD.

On April 1, 2014, the Internet Society of Armenia applied for the string .հայ through the IDN ccTLD Fast Track process to represent Armenia in Armenian script. On November 20, 2014, review by the IDN Fast Track DNS Stability Panel found that "the applied-for string ... presents none of the threats to the stability or security of the DNS identified in [the IDN Fast Track implementation plan] ... and presents an acceptably low risk of user confusion". The request for the string to represent Armenia was subsequently approved. In December 2014, the Internet Society of Armenia commenced a request to ICANN for the delegation of the .հայ top-level domain.

The proposed application succeeded and was delegated to the Root Zone on 07 May, 2015.

Rules and Restrictions

To check general rules and restrictions for .հայ, see the article for the .am ccTLD.

Second-level Domains

The ".համայնք.հայ" second-level domain is available for registration.

Characters

The permitted symbols to be used in a .հայ domain name are:

• "ւ" symbol of Armenian Unicode script;
• Armenian scriptsmall letters of Armenian Unicode script, except "եւ", "ու" letters (ա, բ, գ, դ, ե, զ, է, ը, թ, ժ, ի, լ, խ, ծ, կ, հ, ձ, ղ, ճ, մ, յ, ն, շ, ո, չ, պ, ջ, ռ, ս, վ, տ, ր, ց, փ, ք, օ, ֆ): Instead of "եւ" letter it is recommended to use "ե" letter and "ւ" symbol and instead of "ու" letter it is recommended to use "ո" letter and "ւ" symbol;
• 0-9 digits; and
• dash "–".

The number of symbols converted into "Punycode" converter as mentioned in https://www.punycoder.com web site must not exceed 63 in the domain name label..

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