There seems to be an eternal battle on the internet between those protecting their brands and those who would use those brands in domain names. While some of these brands are easier to protect given that they have trademarks in many countries and jurisdictions, the cost of registering the brand as a domain name...
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TLD Statistics Pages On HosterStats.com
A top hoster statistics page for each of the gTLDs that HosterStats.com tracks will be added over the next few days. It is no suprise that the leader in the most of the gTLDs is Godaddy. It has approximately 21.6% of the market share in com/net/org/biz/info and occupies the top position in .mobi and...
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.cn Deletes Millions of Domains
The .cn ccTLD has deleted approximately 3.9 million domain names since December 2009. The registration figures for .cn domains for December 2009, January 2010 and February 2010 were:
.cn ccTLD Registration Statistics:
December 2009: 13,459,133
January 2010: 12,280,081
February 2010: 9,535,120
Some of these deletions are due to a low cost promotion that CNNIC, the .cn registry ran...
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.tel Enters Junk Dump Phase
The .tel sTLD launched last year and it has done well to grow to approximately 255,939 active .tel domains as of 01 April 2010. The .tel domains that have not been set up do not appear in the .tel zone file. The figure on the .tel anniversary page claims 280,000 .tel domains have been...
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