RegistrarStats has been around for years. It was one of the better sources of information about domain registry market share, trends and, of course, statistics on registrars. It was. It hasn’t been for quite some time. When the site was first made available most, if not all, of the data was available for free. If […]
The Italian country code registry announced last week that they’d passed the 3 million domains registered. With the Italian registry about to kick off celebrations of their 30 years in existence the milestone was quite timely. The first .it domain name was registered in December 1987. They hit 1 million names registered in 2005, a […]
IEDR have released an update to their “dot ie Digital Health Index”. The full report, which runs to about 60 pages, is summarised in their accompanying press release and graphic: Here’s the full press release: Less than a third of Irish SMEs’ websites are ‘e-commerce enabled’ even as Irish consumers are set to spend in […]
MarkMonitor has released a graphic illustrating which new top level domains brands are registering domain names in. For those unfamiliar with them, MarkMonitor is a “corporate” registrar, so their core business is handling domain registrations for brands and trademark holders. According to MarkMonitor’s data the top 20 extensions are: .sucks .porn .adult .news .online .reviews […]
The guys over at the .me registry have reason to celebrate – they’ve just announced that they’ve hit an important milestone. There are now over 1 million .me domain names registered. You can read about the .me 1 million names and how much it means to them over on their blog. In the meanwhile this […]
The first .wales and .cymru domains went live back in September 2014. Just over a year later there are now over 19 thousand .wales and .cymru domains registered. The .wales domain extension appears to have been significantly more popular than the Welsh language version .cymru, with approximately twice as many registrations so far. In terms […]
The .cat domain name registry has broken the 100 thousand domains registered mark. The milestone was reached last Friday evening and was made official Saturday. The registry put out a release to celebrate the milestone and are confident in their claim that the .cat domain name is now the “go to” domain extension for Catalonia and […]
Sunrise domain name registrations used to be a good way for both registries and registrars to get sales and revenue. With the advent of new TLDs however the numbers for most extensions have been lacklustre, with registries being “lucky” to get a couple of hundred domains in the sunrise period (on average) However one could […]
IEDR, who run the .ie ccTLD, have produced their first “Domain Profile Report”. The report’s publication comes as the registry reports surpassing the 200 thousand domain names mark. The milestone was reached earlier this year, though IEDR are only focussing on it now. The new report breaks down registrations by location and type of registrant, […]
The .cat registry has released some figures for domain growth in Spain during 2014 and .cat has emerged as the overall winner. The data is based on research conducted by the .es registry oddly enough! El .cat és el domini que més va créixer al conjunt de l’Estat espanyol durant el 2014, amb un increment […]
