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The CENTRstats Global TLD Report Q1/2022 has been published. It covers the global status and registration trends in all top-level domains (legacy gTLDs, new gTLDs and ccTLDs), with a specific focus on the European ccTLD market. Click here to view the o...
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May 5, 2022 Konstantinos Zournas
Country Code TLDs, domain extensions, Domain Name News, Legacy gTLDs
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) today announced that the second quarter of 2021 closed with 367.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 3.8 million domain name registrations, or 1.0%, compared to the first ...
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September 2, 2021 Konstantinos Zournas
Country Code TLDs, domain extensions, Domain Name News, Legacy gTLDs
The CENTRstats Global TLD Report Q1/2021 has been published. It covers the global status and registration trends in all top-level domains (legacy gTLDs, new gTLDs and ccTLDs), with a specific focus on the European ccTLD market. Highlights from the repo...
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July 6, 2021 Konstantinos Zournas
Country Code TLDs, domain extensions, Domain Name News, Legacy gTLDs
According to Verisign’s Domain Name Industry Brief, the .com and .net registry, the fourth quarter of 2020 closed with 366.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), a decrease of 4.4 million domain name registration...
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March 4, 2021 Konstantinos Zournas
Country Code TLDs, domain extensions, Domain Name News, Legacy gTLDs
Numbers from CENTR show a spike in new registrations in the month of April 2020. A sample of 25 European ccTLDs saw a 20% increase in new domains registered in April 2020 from the same time a year earlier. So the Council of European National Top-Level ...
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May 21, 2020 Konstantinos Zournas
Country Code TLDs, domain extensions, Domain Name News, Legacy gTLDs
CENTR has published the CENTRstats Global TLD Report Q4/2019 . The report covers the global status and registration trends in all top-level domains (legacy gTLDs, new gTLDs and ccTLDs), with additional focus on the European ccTLD market. Highlights fro...
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May 6, 2020 Konstantinos Zournas
Country Code TLDs, domain extensions, Domain Name News, Legacy gTLDs
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported financial results for the first quarter of 2020. Verisign had an operating margin of 66%. I guess that is not enough for Verisign or the corrupted ICANN so they will suck a few more billions out all registrants al...
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April 24, 2020 Konstantinos Zournas
domain extensions, Domain Name News, Legacy gTLDs
Goodbye Neustar! Hello GoDaddy Registry! GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), today announced it is acquiring Neustar Inc’s Registry business. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The deal is expected to close in Q2 2020. The Neustar Re...
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April 6, 2020 Konstantinos Zournas
Country Code TLDs, domain extensions, Domain Name News, Legacy gTLDs
Last week, Verisign promised to not raise the .com prices (even though ICANN had not YET granted Verisign the permission to steal millions of dollars from the global economy by allowing 7% price increases for the next 4 years) to “support”...
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April 2, 2020 Konstantinos Zournas
domain extensions, Domain Name News, Legacy gTLDs
Access Now published an infographic on Twitter about saving the .ORG extension. “It’s not too late to #SaveDotOrg. This infographic explains why civil society across the globe is fighting to stop the sale & keep our digital home safe. P...
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December 16, 2019 Konstantinos Zournas
domain extensions, Domain Name News, Legacy gTLDs, Opinions, savedotorg