EURid has published its annual report for 2018. 2018 was a rather mixed year for EURid. The .eu zone shrank year on year, which continues the trend of the last couple of years with end of year numbers at 3.68 million names, compared to 3.81 million the year before: With Brexit looming they risk losing a significant percentage of their namespace if the European … [Read more...] about EURid 2018 Annual Report Published
Statistics
CENTR Releases Q4 2018 Stats
CENTR has published the 2018 Q4 edition of their global domain statistics. The report, which is available both as a static document as well as an interactive page, is available here. Overall domain name volumes globally continue to grow, but that growth has slowed. In the European ccTLD space there's been a decline in growth trends, though the growth continues for now. … [Read more...] about CENTR Releases Q4 2018 Stats
Internet Watch Foundation Uses Hashes to Block Child Abuse Material
Last week during the ICANN meeting in Barcelona I attended a short presentation from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). Their mission is pretty simple: ...eliminate child sexual abuse imagery online (source) Fortunately the presentation I was at did not include any of the actual material (which would have been illegal anyway) but even without seeing any of it the topic … [Read more...] about Internet Watch Foundation Uses Hashes to Block Child Abuse Material
RegistrarStats Going Dark
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 my memory serves me well the site also offered custom reports, … [Read more...] about RegistrarStats Going Dark
Italian ccTLD Passes the 3 Million Domains Registered Mark
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 number which doubled to 2 million a mere 5 … [Read more...] about Italian ccTLD Passes the 3 Million Domains Registered Mark