The history of creation and development of any national zone in the Internet-environment is always interesting and instructive. The rapid expansion of virtual space into all spheres of human life caused active integration of Internet-resources into business. At the same time powerful informational facilities of the Internet become a serious instrument in business sphere. From the one side development of national zone reflects the economic potential of the country, from the other side it stimulates the progress and active development of all business spheres.

 

National zone of Tajikistan in the Internet-environment, .TJ, was found in 2004. First 2-3 years it was winning positions on a market step-by-step, extending the range of registrators, searching new tools and methods of development. As early as in 2007 the new program of zone development led to rapid increase of interest to .TJ. The success is explained by the fact that more democratic terms were developed and implemented. For instance, it became possible to register domain names by non-residents. Secondary domain market was established that caused powerful flow of investments into domain names purchase. The accreditation of several new registrators in the zone has extended facilities for users. “GET.TJ” registrator came into the national zone. All these steps caused immediate reflection in number of users: only during the first quarter of 2007 the number of newly registered domains was half as much again as the results of all 2006 year. Of course the interest to Internet-space of Tajikistan from the side of inside users, as well as foreign specialists, is obvious.

 

The next important stage of .TJ national zone development was the registration of all two-lettered domains. Today there are no domains of xx.TJ form (where x is for any letter of Roman alphabet) stayed unregistered – all of them have already been reserved by different users. This fact increases the capitalization of assets of those who invested money into acquisition of two-lettered domain in .TJ national zone in due time. Bidding on dynamic development of Tajikistan’s Internet-space, investors were not mistaken: all of 676 possible two-lettered domain names automatically became twice more expensive on a secondary domain market in February 2008. Of course the growth of cost was not even. If to compare the same processes in other national zones, there is a dynamics familiar to all processes of price growth. Thus in .RU national zone, whose development had started earlier, two-lettered domain names ran out in 2003, and now the cost of such domain varies in the range between 8 and 20 thousand dollars. And experts are sure that these figures continue to grow. With respect to such famous world zone as .COM the cheapest two-lettered domain here has a six-digit number in price. Such price is not surprising, as the last available two-lettered domain was registered here in 1995.

 

Without any doubt investing in Internet-resources of Tajikistan is a promising, profitable deal that can bring stable profits within insignificant capital investments. According to expert estimations, .TJ national zone of Tajikistan has powerful potential. Confidently gaining paces of development, the country actively implements high information technologies, tracks the latest achievements, adopts practices of successful projects. Rich natural and human resources of the country attract investors not only from the near abroad, but also from the business circles of Asia, Europe, the Middle East. It is not without reason that .TJ zone is among five leaders among CIS national zones, according to the estimation of investment attractiveness.