The Domain Industry in 2022
The ccTLDs have always represented an important segment of the domain industry, amounting to 30-40% of the global market share. In some regions such as Europe, the ccTLD rate has always been very high—a long-standing trend based on historical and cultural reasons that lead Europeans to prefer national TLDs to localize their web presence. A ...
Annual Review of .fr ccTLD
The .FR TLD maintained a steady dynamic in 2021, whereas the market share of .FR in France continued to grow, reaching 38.75% at the end of 2021. There is a positive correlation, more or less marked depending on the years, between .FR create operations and business creation, even though not all .FR domain names are registered by start-ups and ...
Sunrise for the new Tanzanian TLD .TZ!
1) 1st march 2022, will be open to trademark owners and those registrants already with third-level domains in our registry. This will run for four months until June 30th.
2) The second level registration will be open to public by 1st July 2022.
Ukraine asked ICANN to remove Russian domains from the internet
A letter sent to ICANN by Ukraine urges ICANN to permanently or temporarily revoke Russia’s top-level domains “.ru”, “.рф” and “.su”.On the plus side, such a sanction would cripple Russian economy, but on the minus side, it could cause Russia and others to look for ways to move away from the global internet of ICANN — and ...