OREANDA-NEWS. December 28, 2012. Net increase of registered domains in Azerbaijan for 2012 made up 3,039 domain names.

According to statistics of website www.whois.az, since early 2012 it has been registered 5,478 domains and removed 2,439 and, and as a result, 16,258 domains have been registered in the country, including 15,115 *.az domains.

Main part of registered domains in Azerbaijan accounts for *.az domain.

Then follow *.com.az - 664, *.edu.az - 156, *.org.az - 89, *.net.az - 56, *.int.az - 44, *.pp.az - 42, *.co.az - 40, *.info.az - 24, *.biz.az - 14, *.name.az - 6, *.pro.az - 4.

For the last 3 years the number of domains in *.az domain zone has considerably increased and if in 2009 annual growth of domains made 2,000, in 2010 it was 3,000, in 2011 reached 4,387, and in 2012 made up 5,478. But annually removal of unused or unpaid domains takes place, as a result net growth of .az domains in 2012 exceeded the 2011 index by 40%.