Nominet, the .UK registry, released its annual update on .UK domains suspended for criminal activity over the 12 months to 31 October 2023. When alerted by law enforcement agencies, Nominet works with its registrars to …
Read More »Global TLD Market Report: 45% .com, 38% ccTLDs
The latest CENTRstats TLD Market Report has been published. It covers the global status and registration trends in all top-level domains (legacy gTLDs, new gTLDs and ccTLDs), with a specific focus on the European ccTLD market, and …
Read More »Q4 2023 report: .com and .net lose 1.2 million domains
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced that, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief Quarterly Report from DNIB.com, the fourth quarter of 2023 closed with 359.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), …
Read More ».fr fee is increasing
Afnic is increasing the fee for the .fr TLD for the 400 registrars distributing the domain. As of 1 March 2024, registrars will pay €5.07, an increase of 11.1%. (from €4.56 to €5.07) Afnic said …
Read More »Internet has 359.3 million domains at the end of Q3 2023
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced that, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief Quarterly Report from DNIB.com, the third quarter of 2023 closed with 359.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), …
Read More »European ccTLDs: Median domain growth in 2022 hit a 10 year low at 1.4%
The CENTRstats Global TLD Report Edition 4/2022 has been published. It covers the global status and registration trends in all top-level domains (legacy gTLDs, new gTLDs and ccTLDs), with a specific focus on the European ccTLD market. …
Read More »Verisign reports internet has 354 million domains at the end of Q1 2023
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced that the first quarter of 2023 closed with 354.0 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 3.5 million domain name registrations, or 1.0%, compared to …
Read More »Internet had 350.4 million domains at the end of Q4 2022
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced that the fourth quarter of 2022 closed with 350.4 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 0.5 million domain name registrations, or 0.1%, compared to …
Read More ».ME H2 2022 premium domain report
In the second half of 2022 there were fewer domains registered (36 compared to 41 from H1, 2022), but the average price has slightly increased. This comes as no surprise since overall trends in the …
Read More ».EU ends 2022 with 3,702,264 domains
EURid published its Q4 2022 progress report today with 186,117 new domain name registrations. Luxembourg leads the list of countries for registration growth at +15.9%, while the overall renewal rate remained at 78%. In Q4 …
Read More »Demand for European ccTLDs increased over Q3 2022
The CENTRstats Global TLD Report Edition 3/2022 has been published. It covers the global status and registration trends in all top-level domains (legacy gTLDs, new gTLDs and ccTLDs), with a specific focus on the European …
Read More »Greek .eu domains were phase out to avoid script mixing
The Greek domain name(s) with the Latin .eu extension were all phased-out, i.e. deleted, following a three-year phase-out period on 13 November 2022. From 14 November 2022, only Greek domain names with the Greek .ευ …
Read More ».EU raises prices first time since 2006
As a not-for-profit organisation and per its contract with the European Commission, EURid, the .eu registry, sets its fees in direct relation to costs incurred. As announced during the registrar annual meeting on 17 November …
Read More ».eu usage shows growth in tourism
In May-June, the first exercise of 2022 was carried out, to understand possible new patterns in the way people and businesses use the .eu top-level domain. The results showed clear growth in the tourism and …
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