RFC 2053

RFC 2053: The AM (Armenia) Domain 🇦🇲✨

Okay bestie, here's the deets: this is RFC 2053, written by E. Der-Danieliantz of the AM Network Information Center back in October 1996. It's Category: Informational 🎀, which means it gives info to the Internet community and doesn't set any kind of standard. The title block doesn't list anything it obsoletes or updates. The network working group is the one that put it out 💅.

Status of this Memo 💜

This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. So basically, read it, share it, no standard vibes here 🦋.

The AM Domain 🌸

The AM Domain is an official Internet top-level domain of Armenia. It's giving national pride 🇦🇲.

AM is the ISO-3166 2-letter country code for the Republic of Armenia, and that's why the AM Domain is set up as a top-level domain. It's registered with the InterNIC the same way other country domains are 🧚.

Naming Structure 🍓

The AM Domain hierarchy is flat. That means any organization can be registered directly under the AM TLD, for example arminco.am 💖.

Subdomains are allowed too, like ORG and MIL, plus CO and AC 🫶.

Heads up: MIL.AM and GOV.AM are reserved by the Ministry of Defense and The Government of Armenia, respectively. Other domains can be reserved for appropriate organizations by contacting the AM Network Information Center at HOSTMASTER@AMNIC.NET 🙈.

Registration 🔥

There are two types of registrations. (1) Delegation is where a branch of the AM Domain gets delegated to an organization that runs name servers to support that branch. (2) Direct Registration is where the info goes straight into the main database 💅.

Direct Registration has two cases. (a) is an IP-host (one with an IP address), and (b) is a non-IP host, like a UUCP host. Any particular registration will involve one of these three situations 👑.

The registration is performed by the AM Network Information Center, which is the national Internet registry of Armenia. For more info about them, visit:

http://www.amnic.net

Requirements ⭐

Anyone who wants to register a host in the AM Domain gets sent a copy of the "AM second-level domain registration template". You fill that template out and send it via Internet e-mail to HOSTMASTER@AMNIC.NET for consideration 📬.

The AM Domain template is similar to the InterNIC Domain template, but it's not the same one, so don't mix them up 🙈. To request a copy of the AM Domain template, send a message to HOSTMASTER@AMNIC.NET 🌈.

References 📚

• [1] Stahl, M., "Domain Administrators Guide", RFC 1032, SRI International, November 1987.
• [2] Lottor, M., "Domain Administrators Operations Guide" RFC 1033, SRI International, November 1987.
• [3] Mockapetris, P., "Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities", STD 13, RFC 1034, ISI, November 1987.
• [4] Mockapetris, P., "Domain Names - Implementation and Specification", STD 13, RFC 1035, 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, RFC 974, 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, RFC 1700, ISI, October 1994.

Security Considerations 🔒

Security issues are not discussed in this memo. Literally no security stuff in here, so keep that in mind 💀.

Author's Address 💌

Edgar Der-Danieliantz
AM Network Information Center
c/o Arminco Limited
Mashtotz Avenue 51
Yerevan, ARMENIA

Phone: +374 2 28 14 25
Fax:   +374 2 28 50 82
EMail: edd@acm.org
       edd@amnic.net

That's the whole RFC, bestie! 🌈💖 You now know everything about the AM Domain, and you're iconic for reading it 👑✨