Internet Society

ISOC AM, Armenian Internet Registry, being concerned by a slow rate of .հայ registrations decided to decrease considerably.հայ domain prices. A meeting of Registrars was called at the ISOC AM office, where the reduction of .հայ domain prices as well as advance payments were announced.

The Intellectual Property Owners Club and ISOC.am with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of RA organized a contest on "Intellectual Property and Information Technologies". All IT-interested students can register here and participate in the competition by submitting a Research Paper on one of the approved topics by 18:00PM, April 20, 2019. Find about the contest topics, rules and more here - http://ipoclub.am/it-and-ip/. The authors of the top 10 works will represent their works for 4-5 minutes on April 26th, as a result of which the top three will be selected as winners and will receive valuable prizes.

The Special Assembly of Internet Society NGO will be held on March 13, 2019 at Nairi Hall of Ani Plaza Hotel (Sayat-Nova 19, Yerevan). The Special Assembly will be held exclusively in the form of a joint assembly.     The agenda will include: 1. Elections of the President of the organization. 2. Elections of the organization Board members. 3. Elections of the Supervisory Commission members.   Remote participation for following the meeting will be available for watching through Zoom platform:https://zoom.us/j/355019864 Meeting ID: 355019864

A Special Assembly of the “Internet Society” NGO is to be convened on February 28, 2019 at Tekeyan Center (Khanjan 50 str, Yerevan). Remote participation will be available through Zoom platform. https://zoom.us/j/843946552Meeting ID - 843946552

On December 4-5, the 3rd Eastern European DNS Forum (EE DNS FORUM 2018) will take place in Moscow, Russia. The event is organized by ICANN and supported by the Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ, which will be hosting the event in Russia.It will be the 3rd time the Eastern European DNS Forum is held. The first forum took place in Kiev in 2016, followed by Minsk in 2017. The forum has established itself as a unique networking platform for the online industry and everyone following its development. The program will focus on online security, legal aspects of domain registration, new identification technology, regional trends, and many other themes.The forum is expected to bring together leading industry experts, including lawyers, cybersecurity professionals, representatives of registrars and registries, technical experts, marketers, as well as representatives of NGOs and government agencies. For more, go https://eednsforum.org/en/

"Internet Society" NGO and "Wikimedia Armenia" Scientific-Educational NGO invite girls over the age of 15 to participate in the Editorial Workshop held in the framework of "Girls in ICT” Day International event. The event is scheduled to take place on April 13 at the premises of “Wikimedia Armenia”. In the beginning, the participants will get acquainted with Wiki ideology and the basic tools for editing the Wiki projects as well as write their first Wiki articles. The results of the workshop will be presented on April 26, at "Girls in ICT" event to be held in the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University. Participation is free but the registration is mandatory` https://goo.gl/forms/dJzHwqDc950jb9S93.

The new version of the official website for the “Internet Society” NGO is launched. The content representing the chronicle of ISOC Armenia activity available at isoc.am is transferred to the http://chronicle.isoc.am website. 

ISOC AM has launched .հայ IDN promotion campaign. For this we have initiated a survey to find out Armenian users' opinion and awareness about .հայ IDN. The purpose of the project is to target the development strategy of .հայ zone. Please fill in the survey and share it. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pAJ84Jr6bCIUoaZ_hx7t-FTP6hYb7Z3vTCcMujiodjc/edit