Registries

The monthly growth in .COM TLD during 2014 is lower than that of 2013. The .COM growth figures published by HosterStats.com show that while growth in .COM is still positive, it has slowed compared to other years. It has been suggested that the launch of the new gTLDs is responsible for this slower...
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AFNIC, the French ccTLD registry, published an article on applying the 50:50 law to new gTLD launches. Basically the law has to do with the number of registrations that a new TLD gains on the first day of Land rush being 50% of the domains that the TLD will achieve in the first month...
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Ever wonder how many websites a country hosts? HosterStats.com has mapped all com/net/org/biz/info/mobi/asia websites and matched them, by IP address to the countries where they are hosted. The results are broken down by TLD. The cumulative gTLD (com/net/org/biz/info/mobi/asia) figures are also available and like the map of .COM websites, these are also broken down...
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In what must rank as the most effective action by a new gTLD registry yet, the .BERLIN zonefile was down by 3105 domains this morning. It wasn’t just housekeeping. Some hosters that had particular domain names in yesterday’s zonefile do not have the same domains in this morning’s zonefile (the domains having been deleted)....
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HosterStats has compared the domains of all new gTLDs against the equivalent in COM/NET/ORG/BIZ/INFO/MOBI/ASIA to see what keyword patterns are present. These TLD comparisons show the DNA of a TLD and DNA of .xyz new gTLD is rather odd when compared with the TLD DNA of other new gTLDs such as .club and .guru....
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The .tel zone shrunk by 26,217 domains since 01 January 2014. The bulk of these deletions seem to have occurred in the last forty eight hours. The .tel zone count on 01 January 2014 was 213,239 domains. The current zone count is 187,022 domains. There were 1,417 new domains since 01 January 2014. This...
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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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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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The top 1000 webhosters have over 84% of the domain market. In the HosterStats.com Top 1000 Hosters report  for October 2011 shows that the top 1000 hosters in each TLD tracked have just over 84% of the market in the com/net/org/biz/info/mobi/asia/us TLDs.  In the newer TLDs such as .mobi and .asia, that concentration of...
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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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