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 …
Read More »The world map using domain name registration volume!
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 …
Read More ».ME premium domain report: 453,500 EUR of revenue
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 …
Read More »There are now more than 500.000 .gr domains
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 …
Read More »Nominet starts a “Listening Process” that will take months!
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 …
Read More »Spamhaus Botnet threat update: Most abused top-level domains, Q1 2021
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 …
Read More »Nominet EGM removes 5 board directors
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 …
Read More »ICA issued statement on Nominet’s Extraordinary General Meeting
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 …
Read More »European country-code domains (ccTLDs) reached a 6-year high growth of 4.4%
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 …
Read More »Tucows votes in support of the Nominet public benefit initiative
Tucows has voted in support of the Nominet Public Benefit Initiative at the upcoming Extraordinary General Meeting on March 22, 2021. This is the current support of the Public Benefit Initiative: 462 Supporting Members 2,023,089 …
Read More ».FR domains grow by 7% in 2020
Afnic, the association responsible for .FR domain names, is publishing its annual review of the .FR ccTLD and presented the figures behind a good performance in 2020. With 3,670,372 names in stock at 31 December …
Read More »2020 ended with 366.3 million domains on all TLDs
According to Verisign’s Domain Name Industry Brief, the .com and .net registry, the fourth quarter of 2020 closed with 366.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), a decrease of 4.4 million domain …
Read More ».IS domain fee increases for the first time
ISNIC’s Board of Directors approved the CEO’s proposal to increase the annual domain fee of an .is domain name by 2 Euro. .IS is the ccTLD of Iceland. After the increase, the annual fee for …
Read More »Nominet says campaign can’t appoint board directors without elections
A campaign that is calling for a Nominet Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) and plans to remove the current Chair, Remuneration Chair and Executive Directors and replace them with new directors has made Nominet feel the …
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