Tag Country Codes

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 registration process by adding partner registries. There are now 95…

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 the US State Department sending funds to Andorra because it…

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 become the next .TV, spurring addresses such as: Help.me Save.me…

.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: 6,035,000 United Kingdom: 6,010,000 Netherlands: 2,545,000 Italy: 1,426,000 United States:…

.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 the domain, “Small to medium business owners are responsible for…