While pretty much every registry operator out there will put out a full annual report at some point there are a few who also release a variety of shorter reports over the course of the year. In the case of .nz, the country code for New Zealand, they’ve started publishing short snapshot reports on a… Continue reading New Zealand’s ccTLD Release Q1 Snapshot Report
Category: Statistics
DNS Belgium Reports Renewal Rate of 86%
DNS Belgium, which runs both the .be ccTLD as well as the new TLDs .brussels and .vlaanderen, has published their annual report. Unlike most of the other domain name registries DNS Belgium have opted to take a much more interactive approach, so you can play around with the data and interact with it over on… Continue reading DNS Belgium Reports Renewal Rate of 86%
Irish Registrants Show Love for European Union
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… Continue reading Irish Registrants Show Love for European Union
CENTR Publishes Q1 Report
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… Continue reading CENTR Publishes Q1 Report
EURid 2018 Annual Report Published
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… Continue reading EURid 2018 Annual Report Published
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… Continue reading 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… Continue reading 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… Continue reading 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… Continue reading Italian ccTLD Passes the 3 Million Domains Registered Mark
IEDR Issue Updated IE Health Index
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… Continue reading IEDR Issue Updated IE Health Index