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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DotEU Web Survey Results
Top 1000 Hosters Have Over 84 percent of domain market
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 Wins Against Zheng Cybersquatter
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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Website Usage In .CO – July 2011
HosterStats.com publishes first .CO Website Survey showing how .CO websites are used.
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.eu Domains Drop In Landrush Anniversary Dump
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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Over 1 Million .mobi Domains Registered
The .mobi TLD has more than one million domain names in its zone file. This morning’s domain count for .mobi TLD is 1,002,232 domains. While the TLD was heavily speculated at its launch, the device specific nature of (it is targeted at mobile devices) made it somewhat different from other new TLDs. The largest...
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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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