June 30th, 2009 by 
David Goldstein
NIC México has announced the .MX country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) reached 300,000 registered domain names recently, with the number of registrations today standing at 309,112. Of these, 58,000 domain names registered in 2009 alone showing a rapid growth for the ccTLD. … more
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June 29th, 2009 by David Goldstein
In a move to allow domain names to be registered and accessible to as many people in the European Union as possible, the European Commission has announced speakers of Bulgarian and Greek will soon be able to have .eu websites in their own languages. … more
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June 8th, 2009 by David Goldstein
Nic.ec, the .EC registry, has announced a promotion where .EC domain names cost just US$10 to register, with options for up to ten years for registrations seemingly available. The promotion for new registrations only runs from June 10 to 30. … more
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June 3rd, 2009 by David Goldstein
There are now almost 183 million domain names registered around the world across all Top Level Domains according to the latest 2009 Domain Name Industry Brief from VeriSign. This represents a 17 per cent increase year-on-year and a four per cent increase over the fourth quarter of 2008. Registrations increased twelve per cent over the same quarter from last year while ccTLD registrations continued to increase at a faster rate than gTLDs. … more
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May 24th, 2009 by David Goldstein
Pool.com and Quintaris have received around 300,000 pre-orders for registrations with new gTLDs despite no new gTLDs having been confirmed as of yet and not likely until 2010 at the earliest.
Since Pool.com and Quintaris began allowing consumers to pre-order domain names in what they consider likely new registries, the total number “spoken for” has averaged 10,000 per day. … more
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May 24th, 2009 by David Goldstein
Nominet is running a consultation that is giving those interested in the future of .UK the opportunity to have their say about potential changes to the self-regulation model of the domain name industry in the UK.
Nominet wants to hear opinions about the recommendations made by Professor Garratt and Mutuo on their recent independent governance review. Nominet says now is the time to act to ensure that self-regulation continues and to avoid the potential increased costs, slower pace of change and possible fines for non-compliance that could become a part of everyday life if the industry were to be regulated. … more
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May 24th, 2009 by David Goldstein
Domain name holders in the .AR ccTLD will no longer be able to have more than 200 domain names, a move that appears aimed at domainers. The change in policy to limit the number of domain registrations sees each entity limited to a maximum of 200 COM.AR or ORG.AR domain names. … more
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May 21st, 2009 by David Goldstein
The .ME Registry announced this week the ccTLD has reached 250,000 domains registered. Montenegro’s .ME Registry has seen significant growth since it launched the domain extension worldwide just over one year ago. … more
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May 21st, 2009 by David Goldstein
Telnic, the .TEL registry operator, have announced there are now over 200,000 .TEL domain names registered, the milestone being achieved within the first two months of General Availability. … more
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May 15th, 2009 by David Goldstein
Customers of registrar OnlineNIC who had problems with previous transfer requests should now be able to transfer their domains to a different registrar if they wish. … more
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May 13th, 2009 by David Goldstein
The Irish registry, IE Domain Registry (IEDR), reported this week that the first quarter of 2009 saw the highest number of .IE domain name registrations for any quarter to date and defying the global financial crisis. … more
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May 11th, 2009 by David Goldstein
Earlier this week, either Sunday or Monday, Denmark’s ccTLD, .DK, passed the one million registrations mark according to statistics on the DK Hostmaster website. … more
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May 11th, 2009 by David Goldstein
Dot TK, the registry for .TK domain names, has issued a news release claiming they have registered their 15 millionth domain name. There is something fishy about this claim. To have 15 million domain names registered would make them the largest ccTLD surpassing .CN (China)’s 13.6 million registrations and .DE (Germany)’s 12.8 million. … more
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May 3rd, 2009 by David Goldstein
There are a growing number of reports of cybercriminals taking advantage of the global flu scare, including a number of dubious domain name registrations that make reference to the “swine flu”. … more
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April 29th, 2009 by David Goldstein
A small number of registries and registrars are responsible for three-quarters of child porn websites says the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) in their annual report released this week.
The IWF found 74 per cent of child sexual abuse domains they traced are commercial operations selling indecent images of children with 76 per cent of these (some 850 unique domains) are registered with just ten unnamed domain name registries. Of these, five registries and registrars accounted for 55 per cent of all the commercial child sexual abuse domains known to IWF during 2008. … more
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