.EU: Three years and three million registrations
It’s been nearly three years since .EU went live. Stephane reports that the domain reached 3 million registrations today. Not too bad, considering that .US is still well under two …
Country Codes
Iran reaches 100,000 country code registrations
According to Iran’s registry, the country reached 100,000 .ir registrations last month. For a country of 65 million people, 100,000 registrations is still a drop in the bucket. Compare that …
Will .cn become the new .com?
I recently came across a chart of the most popular domain extensions, compiled by Stephane Van Gelder. Although I keep track of ccTLD registrations for the Country Codes of the …
Kosovo requests ccTLD
Can an international crisis be started over a country code? That’s what I can’t help but wonder when I read that Kosovo has requested its own country code domain. Serbia …
Map of the World Wide Web: Get ’em while they last
I’ve got about a hundred copies of this map remaining and I’m offering them for $3 each for orders of 25 or $2 each for orders of 50 (plus postage). …
Poland joins the million domain club
Poland (.pl) announced last week that it joined the million domain club by registering its one-millionth ccTLD. The reason for the sudden surge in registrations is Poland’s easing of the …
GoDaddy launching the summer of .ME
GoDaddy is building up to a major promotion of the new .ME domain. According to its Web site, the domain should be available for registration over the summer, with an …
Isn’t Andorra in Africa?
The Onion has an entertaining video clip that highlights the never-ending challenge of keeping track of all those countries in the world. In this case, the video pokes fun at …
Country Codes of the World in Communication Arts
Just a quick note to announce that our Country Codes of the World poster was featured this week in the exhibits section of Communication Arts magazine — one of the …
It’s all about .me
Domain registry Afilias has won the rights, along with partners GoDaddy and the Montenegrin organization ME-Net to market and sell the new .ME domain later this year. .ME promises to …
.FR reaches one million registrations
France became a member of the million domain club with its one-millionth .fr registration on January 11th. Here are the top six country codes based on registrations: Germany: 11,120,000 China: …
.AU reaches one million registrations
For Australia, with a population of just over 20 million, reaching one million domain registrations is pretty impressive. Says Adrian Kinderis, Managing Director of AusRegistry, the organization in charge of …
One million .CN registrations in just one month
That’s right. According to the latest stats from China’s registry, roughly one million .cn domains were registered between September 1 and October 1. That brings the grand total to 7.1 …