As of November 2014 total registrations across all Top Level Domains (TLDs) stood at 286.7 million. This represents a growth of roughly 1.5% (4.1 million registrations) for the 3 months since August 2014. As new …
Read More ».CH Registry Stops Direct Sale Of .CH Domain Names
The SWITCH Foundation stopped selling .ch domain names on 1st January 2015 and is successively handing over client support to its business partners, the registrars. SWITCH will be asking its clients to gradually transfer their …
Read More »Russell Haworth Joins Nominet (the .UK Registry) Today As CEO
Back in October, Nominet, the .uk registry, named its new Chief Executive Officer that is Russell Haworth. Russell joined Nominet today as its CEO.. Nominet said in the announcement that “Russell will lead the organisation …
Read More ».EU Q3 2014 Report: Domain Name Registrations Grow By 4.7%
The total number of .eu registrations grew by 4.7% in Q3 2014 compared with the same quarter last year, according to the progress report released by the .eu registry EURid. “As the new gTLDs continue …
Read More »Kids.us Will Remain Suspended
An Education Advisory Committee recommended that Kids.us should remain suspended. The Kids.us Education Advisory Committee was convened in April 2014 to consider the ongoing suspension of the kids.us third-level namespace, as well as to contemplate future …
Read More ».PL Reaches 2.5 Million Domains & 1 Million Registrants
Nearly one million Registrants and over 2.5 million active names – this is the result the .pl ccTLD domain registry attained in the third quarter of 2014. As it results from the report of the …
Read More »1 Million .CH Domains To Be Transfered From The .CH Registry To Registrars
The SWITCH foundation will stop selling .ch domain names as of the beginning of January 2015 and successively hand over the related client support to its business partners, the registrars. The basis for this change …
Read More ».ee Domain Price To Drop From 12 To 9 Euros
On 1 January 2015, the Estonian Internet Foundation will bring the price of an .ee domain down from 12 to 9 euros. An .ee domain can be registered for one, two or three years. The …
Read More ».AU Report: 2.9 Million Domains, 6% Growth, 43% Of Domains Are Under 2 Years Old
A new report on .au, the Australian ccTLD, reveals that almost 50 percent of all .au domain names are between nine and 15 characters in length, while New South Wales claims the honour of the …
Read More »GOV.UK Gets 8 Million Unique Visitors Per Week And Reaches 1 Billion Visits In Total
The United Kingdom government’s GOV.UK website gets just over eight million visits every week on average the Cabinet Office announced. Launched 2 years ago, GOV.UK brings together government services and information online. As the first …
Read More ».SE Auctions 349 Blocked Domains (no.se, tv.se, pr.se, it.se, usa.se)
Sweden’s Internet Infrastructure Foundation (.SE) will conduct multiple auctions to release more of the .se domain names that are not currently possible to register. The domain names are two-character country codes, such as no.se, tv.se, …
Read More »Afnic 2013 Report: 13.7 Million Euros Turnover, 2.7 Million Domains, 8.2% Growth For .FR
The Afnic annual report sheds new light on major events that have marked the development of the Association in 2013: The consolidation of the French legal framework for domain names, the growth of the .fr …
Read More ».Fr Allows Registration Of 1 And 2 Character(s) Domain Names
As of December 8, 2014, it will be possible to register a domain name consisting of only one or two alphanumeric character(s) under the .fr. .Fr is the ccTLD of France. The opening will take …
Read More ».PT Allows Registration Of 2-Character Domains And Holds Sedo Auction With 51 Domains
As of November 3, it will be possible to register two-character domains at .pt. Terms & Conditions are already available for consultation at dns.pt. .PT is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Portugal. Sedo …
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