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Irish Registrants Show Love for European Union

May 22, 2019 by Michele Neylon

I've been writing about the .eu ccTLD for well over a decade. While the extension's popularity in EU member states has ebbed and flowed over the years I don't recall ever noting a registration spike in Ireland. However EURid's Q1 report for 2019 is showing a notable spike in Ireland.Admittedly the spike is percentage based not absolute numbers, yet it's still an … [Read more...] about Irish Registrants Show Love for European Union

CENTR Publishes Q1 Report

May 19, 2019 by Michele Neylon

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CENTR has published its Q1 2019 statistics report. The report covers domain statistics in both ccTLDs and gTLDs and the overall results aren't terribly positive. While there is light at the end of the tunnel some of the headline figures make for quite depressing reading:The median domain growth of all TLDs has hit a record low of 3.4% year on yearNew gTLDs have less than … [Read more...] about CENTR Publishes Q1 Report

EURid 2018 Annual Report Published

April 15, 2019 by Michele Neylon

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

CENTR Releases Q4 2018 Stats

March 12, 2019 by Michele Neylon

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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

October 29, 2018 by Michele Neylon

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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

January 3, 2018 by Michele Neylon

RegistrarStats homepage January 2018

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

December 12, 2016 by Michele Neylon

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

IEDR Issue Updated IE Health Index

November 25, 2016 by Michele Neylon

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 excess of €100 million online this Black … [Read more...] about IEDR Issue Updated IE Health Index

Which TLDs Brands Are Registering

October 31, 2016 by Michele Neylon

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 … [Read more...] about Which TLDs Brands Are Registering

DotMe Breaks 1 Million Domain Names

March 31, 2016 by Michele Neylon

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 graphic shows how the zone grew over the past 8 years:There's quite a … [Read more...] about DotMe Breaks 1 Million Domain Names

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