Country Code TLDs

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Freenom will soon relaunch the .GQ top level domain – the domain extension of Equatorial Guinea – and  give all .GQ domains away for free. I think that the GQ magazine will not be too …

As of August 2014 the total number of domains across all Top Level Domains (TLDs)  stood at 282.5 million (including new gTLDs). This represents a growth of roughly 1.6% since May 2014 (4.5 million registrations). …

The .nz registry has started offering shorter .nz (New Zealand) ccTLD domain names. From yesterday 1pm, 30 September 2014, ‘second level’ domains like the .co in ‘.co.nz’ and the .org in ‘.org.nz’ became optional. You’ll …

Norid is negotiating with the Dutch registry, SIDN, to possibly rent or sell the .bv top-level domain. Norid is in talks to offer the ccTLD .bv on the Dutch market, confirms CEO Hilde Thunem. Norid have been …

ICANN announced the successful completion of String Evaluation on proposed IDN ccTLD string (xn--mgbtx2b عراق) for the Republic of Iraq. Iraq’s latin ccTLD is .IQ. The IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) ccTLD Fast Track Process was …

Nominet announced that it is boosting the security of the UK namespace to help protect it from attack and exploitation. As part of this, they will be offering two-factor authentication access to their Online Services …

From 15 September, Nominet will begin emailing registrants with rights to a short .uk domain under the .uk 5-year reservation mechanism.  This step is part of a wider programme of communication and outreach committed to as …

Heart Internet, one of UK’s largest reseller hosting companies, has become one of the first major businesses in the United Kingdom to switch to the recently launched .uk domain name. Heart internet switched from a …