Adventures in web globalization, since 2002
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 with the UK, a country with 60 million people and …
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 World map, Stephane tracks all domains, including .com, .net., etc. …
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 (and it’s powerful backer Russia) do not accept Kosovo’s independence …
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). The map normally sells for $12 each, so this is …
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 …
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 initial Sunrise Period for trademark holders. Based on some of …
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 …
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 world’s leading design publications. I’m happy to see so many …
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 …
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: …
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 …
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 million .cn domains that have been registered thus far, and …