Country Code TLDs

The CENTRstats Global TLD Report Q1/2021 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. …

For several years now, EURid (the .EU registry) has been running two yearly categorisation exercises regarding the use of .eu. Throughout April, they deployed the first exercise of 2021 to understand possible new patterns within …

EURid, the .eu registry, published its 2020 annual report that shows a 2.2% yearly growth. The bi-yearly registrar satisfaction survey showed 97% satisfaction rate among EURid registrars. Here is the complete 2020 EURid/.EU report:

Overview of global trends and an analysis of the mechanisms at work during the health crisis. The global domain name market accounted for approximately 349 million domain names at the end of December 2020, up 1.3% compared …

Yesterday EURid, the .eu registry, sent the final reminder to all registrars and their UK registrants whose .eu domain names were SUSPENDED on 1 January 2021.The reminder states that unless registration details are updated by …

EURid released its Q1 2021 progress report, sharing its quarterly statistics and developments. Highlights include: 186,488 new domain name registrations recorded; Ireland tops the list of countries for registration growth at +9.3%; An average renewal …

Nominet each year visualizes the size and influence of the different national registries – those running country code Top Level Domains (ccTLD) – in The Online World map using the domain name registration volume. The …

The .ME Registry acted quickly in 2020 and on March 4th, 2020 they made the majority of its .ME premium domains available to anyone. Because of that a bit more than a year after the …

The .gr registry announced that .gr reached a new milestone on April 21, 2021. There are now more than 500.000 .gr domain names registered. In the past 10 years .gr domain registrations almost doubled. The …

Nominet has appointed independent research company Savanta to carry out a “major piece of research to understand the perspectives of members and stakeholders on the future of Nominet”. “The outputs from the listening process will …

For Q1 2021, the gTLD .com remains at the top of the Spamhaus rankings. A large majority of botnet C&C domains that Spamhaus Malware Labs identified were hosted on this TLD. However, we have seen …

Nominet announced that four directors have been removed from their board seats as a result of a vote at today’s Extraordinary General Meeting. Russell Haworth has stood down from his board seat before the vote …

ICA issued the following statement on Nominet’s Extraordinary General Meeting: On Monday, March 22, 2021, Nominet, the United Kingdom’s registry operator for .UK domain names faces a stark choice between those who want it to …

New report says that 2020 was a historic year in that the median growth of European country-code domains (ccTLDs) reached a 6-year high of 4.4%. The CENTRstats Global TLD Report Q4/2020 has been published and …