An independent review into the body responsible for regulating New Zealand’s ccTLD, the Domain Name Commission, has found “there is much for current and past DNCL staff to be proud of” and that it “is a sound and competent regulator of the .nz space.” It’s the first regulatory review into the Domain Name Commission and…
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One In 5 .NZ Domains Now Registered At The Second Level
InternetNZ logo Down in the Antipodes, InternetNZ has begun to release a quarterly report of life in .nz in a new easy-to-read format, and the first of these reports for the period April to June 2019 shows that almost one in 5 .nz domain names are now registered at the second level. At the end…
.IE Grows 40% In 5 Years, With Recent Brexit-Fuelled Surge: IEDR
Ireland’s ccTLD .ie has grown 40% in 5 years the latest .IE Domain Profile Report published this week by IE Domain Registry shows, fuelled by a registration rule change, a buoyant economy, Brexit and social network limitations. There were over a quarter of a million (273,156) registrations at the end of June 2019, up more…
.EU Registrations Boom In Ireland As UK Collapse Continues On Brexit Fears
Registrations of .eu domain names in the United Kingdom have almost halved, declining 46.7% to 162,287 in the year to the end of June and 13.9% for the quarter as fears British registrants will be ineligible to hold their domains if Britain leaving the European Union comes to be. Assuming Brexit happens, British .eu registrants…
CENTR Registrar Day and CENTR Awards Coming on 8 October
CENTR is to hold its annual pan-European Registrar Day in at The Hotel in Brussels, Belgium, on 8 October. It will be followed by the fourth CENTR Awards, which aim at highlighting country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registry projects, teams and people that make a difference in the domain name industry, and which this year…