One- and Two-Character .TRAVEL domain names will be released in the near future following ICANN’s approval of the proposal to release all of the domain names. … more

ISOC-IL, the registry for .IL (Israel), has announced they will soon be making available domain names containing Hebrew characters, like איגוד-האינטרנט.org.il. … more

In a shock announcement, the Board of Directors of .ORG the Public Interest Registry announced today that Alexa Raad, the President and Chief Executive Officer of PIR, has decided to resign from her positions with the company effective on September 24th, 2010. Her resignation concludes 3.5 years of service and leadership at PIR. … more

EURid has taken a closer look at the distribution of .EU registrations among its registrars and has found that 65 per cent of domain name registrants chose a registrar from their own country, 18 per cent chose a registrar from a different country in the European Union, and 17 per cent chose a registrar located outside the EU according to a news release released this week. … more

An increase of over 500,000 domain name registrations in the previous six months saw the number of .ORG domains registered soar past 8.5 million according to the latest bi-annual report from the .ORG registry, the Public Interest Registry. … more

Afilias has announced it will deploy Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) across its registry platforms, signing 13 more top level domains (TLDs) it operates including .INFO and increasing DNSSEC deployment among domain registries by 50 percent. … more

Last week it was the announcement that .NL had passed the four million registration mark, but not every ccTLD is so large and smaller milestones are just as momentous. So the announcement that .IS, the Icelandic ccTLD, had passed the 30,000 registrations marks is probably equally momentous to them. … more

[news release] EURid has taken a closer look at the distribution of .eu registrations among its registrars and has found that 65 % of domain name registrants chose a registrar from their own country, 18 % chose a registrar from a different country in the European Union, and 17% chose a registrar located outside the EU. … more

The registries for .AU (Australia) and .NZ (New Zealand), auDA and InternetNZ, have announced their Best Practice Awards for 2010 while .INFO registry Afilias has opened its fourth annual .INFO Awards programme. … more

ICANN is asking Demand Media’s eNom division for answers following complaints from Internet security groups, says an IDG report. … more

As previously reported, the four millionth .NL domain name was registered this week. On reaching the four million mark, SIDN also announced they are the ccTLD with the highest number of registered domain names per person in the respective country with almost one domain name registered for every four of the 16.8 million residents of The Netherlands. … more

Official statistics on the SIDN website, registry for .NL domain names, shows that the four millionth registration was passed this week.

Currently there are 4,006,563 domain names registered making .NL the fourth largest ccTLD. … more

The CZ.NIC Association, the registry for .CZ domain names, has announced there are now more than 700,000 .CZ domain names registered. The 700,000th .CZ domain name was registered on 4 August and it took ten months to register the last 100,000 domain names. … more

The .CO registry, .CO Internet, has announced auctions commenced on 10 August for more than 2,500 .CO domain applications that received multiple bids during the .CO “Landrush” phase. The auction will take place over the next four weeks and are open only to those that previously applied to register a specific .CO domain during the .CO Landrush phase. The announcement comes about with almost 425,000 .CO domains registered. … more

With the .AT domain name space approaching its one millionth registration sometime in the next twelve months, the Austrian registry nic.at has released the second of its twice-yearly reports. This edition of the .AT Report finds that Germans love .AT domain names with 190,000 of the 939,951 domain names registered on 1 July. However the Swiss and the British are also interested in .AT domain names.

The report is full of interesting statistics and titbits for the domain name connoisseur. … more