Buy .com.am Domain Name

No. The registration policy sets one test for the holder: being competent to conclude a civil law contract. No Armenian company, representative or address is required, and the clause listing grounds for refusal says nothing about local presence. The local requirement belongs to the registrar alone, which must be a legal entity registered in Armenia. The same rule applies to the second-level .am zone.

No. The label suggests commerce, but the registration policy assigns no purpose to any third-level zone: .com.am, .co.am, .org.am and .net.am appear in the text only in the technical rules and reserved-name clauses, with no distinction of purpose between them. You do not need to be a company either — an individual can hold the name. In practice the difference is only in how the address reads; it creates no obligation on the rules side.

Our measurement on 13 August 2026 calls for a warning. Third-level names that showed as active in the registry WHOIS and had name servers set were not published as delegations in the .am zone: all four authoritative servers for .am answered «no such name» for them. A second-level control name queried on the same servers was answered correctly, so the servers themselves were healthy. Once your registration completes, test that the address really resolves; if it does not, ask your registrar to have it published in the zone.

A 45-day additional period runs after the term ends, and renewal is possible within it. The name stops working on day one of that period, though: the policy states that it is no longer translated into an IP address. In the final 15 days the WHOIS record disappears as well. If you renew during the additional period, the new term counts from its first day; if you do not, the name is deleted from the register and released for registration again.

The registry, the policy text, the pricing logic and the dispute route are identical. The difference is the level: .am sits at the second level and .com.am at the third, so the address carries one part more. The weight of use also sits at the second level — the registry's accredited registrar directory lists accreditation only for .am and the Armenian-script .հայ. If you want a short, single-part address, it makes sense to look at .am first.

The UDRP does not apply. Clause 44 of the registration policy sends every dispute to arbitration at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Armenia; the seat is Yerevan, the language is Armenian, and the award is final and binding. Armenian law governs. A holder of a trade mark, trade name, appellation of origin or geographical indication may seek cancellation on the basis of a preferential right, and the name is cancelled if the registrant offers no equivalent argument.