The number of domain names registered around the world passed 350 million in the second quarter of 2019, totalling 354.7 million as of 30 June, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief [pdf] from Verisign. During the quarter there was an increase of 2.9 million domain name registrations, or 0.8%, compared to the first…
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.PL Registrations Down, Renewals Up, in Second Quarter
Renewal rates are going up, but total registration numbers are down for Poland’s ccTLD .pl, according to their latest Domain Name Market quarterly report for the second quarter of 2019. At the end of June, there were 2,602,326 .pl domain names under management, a decrease of 8,461 as compared to the previous quarter and down…
Independent Review Finds NZ’s Domain Name Commission “A Sound And Competent Regulator”
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…
In 3 Weeks auDA Goes From Boasting of 2LDs Readiness To Not Ready. What Gives?
It was only 3 weeks ago that auDA’s CEO Cameron Boardman “resigned” and in a glowing announcement on his ‘achieving many goals’, the Board crowed that one of these was “the development and implementation of new Licensing Rules for .au second-level domain names, and the introduction of direct registration of .au”. Now the Board has…
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…