Frank mentions that the Dutch registry (SIDN) has reached the 3 million names mark.
Category: Statistics
McAfee Report Not Good For IE ccTLD
Anti-virus vendor McAfee have released their second report on Malware (pdf) which tracks incidences of malware on a TLD basis. The previous report, which received a lot of press coverage, was very favourable for several ccTLDs, including .ie (Ireland). This time round the Irish ccTLD may not be listed in the “dangerous” list, but the… Continue reading McAfee Report Not Good For IE ccTLD
Eurid and the failure to promote dotEU
In some ways the failure of .eu to capture hearts and minds makes me sad. I’m European. I’d like to think that a European namespace could be a success, but that seems to be a misplaced desire. As I mentioned some time ago, the only way to grow a namespace or TLD is through usage.… Continue reading Eurid and the failure to promote dotEU
France Passes The One Million Mark
The .fr registry (AFNIC) had a milestone a few days ago. They’ve now got over one million domains registered! While that may seem like a significant number it pales in comparison to the figure of DENIC or Nominet. However, if you compare .fr to one of its European neighbours like Ireland, with barely 90k domains… Continue reading France Passes The One Million Mark
China Leaps Ahead – EU Loses Ground
Verisign’s latest domain report makes for interesting reading. The Chinese domain registry launched an aggressive price promotion at the beginning of the year and has seen in excess of 6 million names registered so far. Of course this could be similar to the .be promotion and the level of renewals is the thing to watch… Continue reading China Leaps Ahead – EU Loses Ground
EU NameSpace is Dead?
The EU sunrise and landrush has probably been discussed to death, but what is the landscape like over a year later? A lot of industry insiders were right to express their doubts about the stability of EU following on from the high profile squats, that have been discussed here at length. Of course any discussion… Continue reading EU NameSpace is Dead?
co.uk passes 6 million domains
In the last week Nominet has reported that the six millionth domain has been registered. For a ccTLD that’s an impressive figure by any estimation. Detailed stats are available on their site It would be interesting to see what percentage of registrants are UK based, as the registry has an open policy (the registrant class… Continue reading co.uk passes 6 million domains
Mapping ICANN
ICANN is an international organisation, but how international is it really? If reading lists with lots of text is hard work, then maybe a more visual representation of the same data might be easier to digest. ICANN have made available a collection of maps that show a wealth of information about the domain world: *… Continue reading Mapping ICANN
IE ccTLD Breaks 80k Barrier
John mentions that the IE ccTLD has broken the 80 thousand mark. The current count stands at 80216 live domains. (source IEDR) While not a huge ccTLD, the .ie namespace has been growing steadily. As the rules have become relaxed you can see a nice growth in the graph (see IEDR stats for details)
.EU Deletions Uncovered
The first anniversary of .eu has come and gone and with it many EU domains have ceased to exist. At the beginning of last month I was wondering how many EU domains would drop off the ‘net completely and it now seems that the number was in excess of 250k. John speculates that a lot… Continue reading .EU Deletions Uncovered