Namecheap today released its 2024 Domain Insights & Trends Report. The report highlights key developments in the domain industry, showing emerging trends, top-performing TLDs, and key shifts in domain registration and renewal behaviors. The 2024 …
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2024 study: factors that drive domain renewals
The Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries (CENTR) announced the release of the public version of its comprehensive 2024 Renewal Study, providing insights into the factors that drive domain retention across country code top-level …
Read More »Identity Digital to release over 20,000 premium domains
Identity Digital announced the release of more than 20,000 short premium domains. Available for the first time, this includes over a thousand one and two-character .info domains and hundreds of previously-reserved .vote domains. The Early …
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 »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 ».com price goes up on September 1, 2023
In accordance with the terms and conditions of the December 1, 2012 .com Registry Agreement, as amended, executed between VeriSign, Inc. and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number (“ICANN”), Verisign has provided effective …
Read More »Namecheap vs ICANN: removal of price caps for .ORG and .INFO found improper in landmark IRP decision
Namecheap announced that the removal of price caps for .ORG and .INFO was found improper in a landmark IRP decision. Here is what Namecheap posted: Back in 2019, Namecheap stood up to ICANN as it …
Read More »European domains slowed down over 2021 but still grew!
The CENTRstats Global TLD Report Q1/2022 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. Click here to …
Read More »Q2 2021 closed with 367.3 million domain registrations (down 2.8 million year over year)
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today announced that the second quarter of 2021 closed with 367.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 3.8 million domain name registrations, or 1.0%, compared …
Read More »Spamhaus Botnet threats: Most abused top-level domains, Q2 2021
This quarter, the Spamhaus researchers have observed a 12% reduction in newly observed botnet command and controllers (C&Cs), which is good news. However, it’s not good news for everyone; more than one industry-leading provider is …
Read More »Global TLD report Q1 2021: 4.9% YOY growth of European ccTLDs
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. …
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