ccTLDs

EURid published its Q4 2019 report and it shows the impact that BREXIT is having on the ccTLD. The number of UK registered .EU domain names declined from 240,887 domain names at the start of 2019 to 150,024 by the end of 2019. The main reason for this decline is that BREXIT means that...
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I’ve been working on a historical links graph and database for the Irish webscape for the last few years. One thing that has become increasingly apparent is that the ordinary (Google) approach to unnatural links may have got it backwards. In engineering, you solve a problem not its effects. Google seems to be trying...
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Global totals for gTLDs are great but they just don’t give the kind of country level view that most web hosters and registries need. Each country level market is typically based on a combination of domain names. The most important is generally the local ccTLD. But .COM TLD also occupies a major segment of...
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HosterStats Irish Website Usage Survey December 2012 The statistics below covers detected IE/COM/NET/ORG/BIZ/INFO/EU websites and classify each site based on its usage. Active/unclassified: 43.27% Brand Protection: 2.39% Clone sites: 2.56% In Page Redirects: 1.68% External TLD Redirect: 3.92% Forbidden/Not Found: 1.24% Government/EDU: 0.02% Holding Pages: 14.98% Internal Site Redirect: 6.37% Exact Match TLD Redirect: 2.88% PPC Parked: 13.02% Redirect/unclassified: 0.37% For Sale: 0.79% Unavailable: 0.46% Compromised: 0.10% In Zone Redirect: 5.93%
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The Irish webscape is complex even though it is only approximately 350K domains in size. Not all of it is hosted on Irish IP addresses or webhosters. The website percentages below are based on a crawl and categorisation of detected Irish websites. The Active/Unclassified percentage is the core of the Irish web. Brand protection...
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In October 2011, the websites of 2.3 million .eu websites were surveyed by HosterStats.com. The websites (approximately 1.98 million responding) were then classified as to their domain usage. This is a more complex survey than Eurid’s Insight survey of a a few thousand .eu websites and it shows that .eu is being used but...
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Eurid has finally won in court against a cybersquatter that had cybersquatted over 9000 .eu domains. The cybersquatter, Zheng Qingying, had no entitlement to register .eu domains and was not based in the EU. Eurid took court action against the cybersquatter and succeeded. The cybersquatter then appealed the ruling and Eurid won the appeal. The...
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HosterStats.com publishes first .CO Website Survey showing how .CO websites are used.
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HosterStats.com has posted the statistics for the top 50 .co ccTLD webhosters based on detected domain name counts. While only 616,227 .co domain names are currently tracked, over 1 million domain names have been registered in the ccTLD. Godaddy’s domaincontrol.com is the top hoster with 32.69% of the detected .co domain names. Godaddy has...
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HosterStats.com has published a graph of dropped .eu domain names from 2007 to 2011. The .eu ccTLD has always been a strange ccTLD. It was a good idea poorly implemented and until recently, EUrid had published very little in the way of accurate statistics on registration trends in the .eu ccTLD. Recently it added...
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