A Look at the Current State of ccTLDs, Particularly in Europe - European ccTLDs have passed 67 million registrations in total at a net growth of 0.7% over the past quarter, according to the new DomainWire report by Council of European National Top level Domain Registries (CENTR). According to the report, top 20 largest ccTLDs represent roughly 82% of all ccTLD registrations globally and 38% of all domain names globally (gTLDs, ccTLDs, etc). The ccTLD for Tokelau (.tk) has the largest zone with 28 million reported domain names. However, it offers mostly ... read more ...

NiRA Opens .Ng Domain Name under ‘i.ng’ Zone – Udeagu - Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) has added a new boost to the cyberspace with the registration of new domain names under the ‘.i.ng’ zone. Chief Operating Officer (COO) and head of the Secretariat of Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), Edith Udeagu made this known in a statement to the press, adding   that the new zone was introduced in April to serve as another platform in promoting the .ng ccTLD and growth ... read more ...

The .ME Domain Hits 800000 Registrations - PODGORICA, Montenegro--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The .ME Registry announced today that its ccTLD has passed 800,000 domain registrations. Since its launch in 2008 Montenegro’s country code domain has been marketed as a premier choice for building a personal brand and it quickly became one of the favorite new extensions among creative individuals who want to stand out online. The domain has continued to grow steadily in response to the global trend of nurturing ... read more ...

Mali’s ‘.ml’ to target Malaysian internet users -

The Republic of Mali recently partnered with Freenom in an bid to foster domain name registrations underneath ‘.ml’, a country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Mali, to boost internet use in a nation and to lift Mali’s online profile. Freenom is a Dutch association that operates a ‘.tk’ registry, that is a ccTLD for Tokelau.

In May 2013, following the…

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Revised Top Level Domain Law in Sweden? - On March 31, Swedish regulatory overview office, Post and Telecom Authority (Post- och telestyrelsen, PTS), published a 54 pages report on revision of the Swedish Top-Level Domain (TLD) law for internet. The report contains proposals for revision of policy and Swedish law regulating top level domains. This is not a surprise. The issue has been simmering for ten years, at least. However, with increasing dependency of information society, public regulators are increasingly inclined to revise ... read more ...

Nigeria registers 80000 domain names in three years - Nigerian Communications Commission HeadquartersABOUT 80, 000 Nigeria’s Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) name, the .ng have so far been registered in the country since the campaign began in 2012. This was disclosed to The Guardian, by the President of the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), the agency incharge of administering domain names in the country, Mrs. Mary Uduma. Uduma however, disclosed that out of the 80, 000, only about 60, 000 are active; stressing ... read more ...

Google: ccTLDs Can Get US Traffic Also, No Need To Worry - A Google Webmaster Help thread has a webmaster who has a ccTLD, specifically a .com.au (Australian top level domain) and he is concerned that over the past four months or so, his US origin traffic from Google search has spiked.He said, "Its weird because for the past 4 months we are getting huge impression from United States even though our domain is com.au."The concern is that he is not targeting Australian searchers any more and something was reset.Google's John Mueller responded that this ... read more ...

Taiwan: Domain name dispute resolution - Our weekly IP round-up includes Panasonic, Taylor Swift, Motorola, Intellectual Ventures, ATT http://t.co/bpGxNLKGq7 http://t.co/YQR35RbRve Mar 28 2015 04:25 ·  reply ·  retweet ·  favourite ... read more ...

.ng domain name doesn’t impress - .ng domain name doesn't impress Almost three years after Nigeria's .ng Country's Code Top Level Domain Name (ccTLD) officially became available, the level of uptake has been below the target set by the Nigerian Internet Regulatory Association (NiRA). Late last year, Mary Uduma, President of NiRA projected the total number of registered domain names in the country would soon hit 60,000. However, a cross section of web developers who spoke to ITWeb Africa ... read more ...

NIRA Restates Commitment to Populating Nigeria’s Domain Name - President of NIRA, Mrs. Mary Uduma By Emma Okonji The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), manager of the .ng domain name, which is Nigeria's country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) name, has reiterated its commitment to populate the country's domain name. President of NIRA, Mrs. Mary Uduma, who stated this at a media training on .ng domain name, organised NIRA, encouraged Nigerians to register their businesses with .ng domain name, which is Nigeria's identity in the cyberspace, ... read more ...

IDN ccTLD Request from Macao Successfully Passes String Evaluation – ag-IP - Home / IDN ccTLD Request from Macao Successfully Passes String Evaluation / LOS ANGELES - ICANN announced in a press release the successful evaluation of the proposed IDN ccTLD string for Macao. Details of the successful evaluation are provided here: http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion The IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) ccTLD Fast Track Process was approved by the ICANN Board at its annual ... read more ...

.ZA Domain Registrations Pass The 1 Million Mark - According to itnewsafrica.com, the ZA Domain Name Authority (ZADNA), the regulator of .ZA, which is the ccTLD for South Africa, says the number of registered .ZA domain names has reached and exceeded 1 million for ths first time this week. .ZA becomes the first country domain in Africa to reach 1 million registrations. The bulk of registrations continue to be in co.za, which accounts for a little more than 971,000 registrations as of 19 February 2015, and continues to grow by a few thousand new ... read more ...

Mali Offers Free .ML Domains in Malaysia to Grow User Base - Mali is offering free .ml domains in Malaysia to help promote its ccTLD, becoming the first African country to look abroad for domain name distribution. AGETIC, the government agency responsible for Mali’s public infrastructure, is offering domain names at no charge to Internet users in Malaysia for a 12-month period. Malaysia already has its own ccTLD, the .my domain, but according AGETIC, a combination of high registration costs and required paperwork has stalled the process for Malaysians ... read more ...

ICANN on collision path for ccTLDs -

The house of a Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has signalled a vigilant to suggest that a same Name Collision supplies that were put in place for new general top-level domains (gTLDs) are also practical to newly rising country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs).

By ICANN’s possess definition:

“a name collision occurs when users unknowingly entrance a…

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Mali offers free .ml domain names in Malaysia, hoping for a global presence - Mali is offering its country code top level domain (ccTLD), .ml, to the 20 million Internet users in Malaysia, capitalizing on the popular use of “ML” as an abbreviation for the Southeast Asian nation.Internet use in French-speaking Mali, in West Africa, has been low. It is one of the world’s poorest countries, and has a high level of illiteracy.Meanwhile, Malayisa has recently prioritized ICT to ensure it contributes 17 percent to its GDP by 2020, up from 11 percent now. The .my domain is ... read more ...