The number of registered .eu domains dropped on on what is the anniversary of the .eu domain name Land Rush of 2006. This morning’s .eu registration figure was 3,326,388 domains, This would put the .eu back to December 2010 registration numbers.
The most interesting drop has been that of the country of Cyprus. It dropped...
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.eu Domains Drop In Landrush Anniversary Dump
Over 5.6 Million gTLD domains UK Hosted
The UK is one of the main players in the ccTLD world with the second largest ccTLD in the world. Its ccTLD has over 9 million domains registered and most of them are in the .co.uk subdomain. However that is only the tip of the iceberg for the UK’s domain industry. The latest HosterStats...
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Netherlands .nl Overtakes China’s .cn ccTLD
The Dutch ccTLD, .nl, has overtaken the Chinese ccTLD, .cn. On 31st of January 2011, the .nl had 4,257,410 domains registered according to the .nl registry website www.sidn.nl. The .cn registry figures for January 2011 show that it has 3,494,227 domains registered. This is a massive change for the .cn ccTLD but it is...
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Top 10 ccTLDs Have Over 47 Million Domains Registered
The top ten country code Top Level Domains have more than 47 Million domains registered as of the end of May 2010. These ccTLDs have 47,430,061 domains registered. The .com TLD had 87,528,607 domains registered as of 01 June 2010. The growth of the ccTLDs has been one of the stealth issues of the...
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20.48% of Irish Websites On 10 IP addresses
Just over 20% of Irish websites are on 10 IP addresses. The number of Irish websites covered in the survey was 257695. There were only 20959 distinct IP addresses. The WhoisIreland.com survey of Irish websites runs every month and covers .ie websites and Irish hosted com/net/org/biz/info/eu websites. The concentration of websites on a small...
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.uk ccTLD Overtakes .cn ccTLD
The .uk ccTLD domain name count for the April 2010 was 8,483,010. The .cn ccTLD domain name count for April 2010 was 8,254,681. The .uk ccTLD, adminstered by Nominet, has overtaken the .cn ccTLD and is now the second largest ccTLD globally after the .de ccTLD (13,630,401 domains as of the end of April) ...
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.cn Domain Drop Continues – .uk May Overtake .cn
The Chinese .cn ccTLD has lost more domains and has 8,844,196 domains registered as of March 2010. This is a drop of 690,924 domains since February. However the January 2010 to February 2010 drop was 2,744,961 domains. This may indicate that the bulk of the domains being dropped were those from the low cost...
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Brand Protection Domain Name Registrations
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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.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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