YEREVAN (Arka) — Armenia’s .am is among the three national domains in the world that showed the highest growth in the fourth quarter of 2015, according to DomainWire Global TLD Report 2015/4.
Council of European National Top level Domain Registries (CENTR) placed China atop the list – the country’s domain .cn recorded 30.8% growth in the 4th Q 2015, Estonia came second in the ranking – its national domain .ee showed a 20.8% growth, and Armenia came third with its 18% growth.
Armenian domain .am (18%) is also among top five European national domains, standing after Estonia (21%) and Montenegro (19%), but leaving Portugal (3%) and Turkey (2%) behind.
According to CENTR, there are 311.5 million registered domains. Their number rose 4.4% in the four quarter of 2015.
The world biggest domains are China’s .cn (16.4 million) Germany’s .de (16 million), Britain’s .uk (10.6 million), the Netherlands’ .nl (5.6 million) and Russia’s .ru (5 million).
Meanwhile, Armenian scientists have established a broader cooperation with colleagues in Europe rather than in the USA or Russia, the chairman of the State Committee on Science, an affiliation of the Ministry of Education and Science, Samvel Harutyunyan said today.
According to him, over the last 10 years Armenian scientists have managed to actively integrate into the European scientific community and today about 60% of scientific papers of Armenian scientists published abroad are developed and published together with European peers, while the USA accounts for 15% of papers and Russia for the rest.
“Russian science market has become weak for Armenia; moreover, new opportunities have opened up for Armenian scientists through cooperation with the Armenian Diaspora, which represents the scientific community,â€
