Category Archives: Registries

News, Views, and Info About Domain Name Registries – Domain Name Registries Manage the Central Databases for Domain Names (Kind of like the Wholesalers of the Domain Name Industry).

How Well Do You Know Your Country Codes?

Learn about the ISO 2-character country codes from around the world. Continue reading

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Afilias selected to Provide Registry Services for .PR ccTLD

San Juan, Puerto Rico – Dublin, Ireland – January 08 2018 – Gauss Research Laboratories, the .PR ccTLD manager, is pleased to announce that it has selected Afilias, a leading domain registry operator, to provide technical services to support Puerto … Continue reading

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CENTR Releases Third Quarter Domain Report

The Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries recently released its DomainWire Global TLD Report. The results are interesting and include the following in summary: .info grew over 10%; the fastest growing of the top 15 largest gTLDs year over … Continue reading

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We Interview an Internet Pioneer, Patricio Poblete of NIC CL (Chile)

Nic CL (.cl ccTLD) is a pioneer in the domain name space for South America. We interviewed Patricio Poblete, who has managed that ccTLD for almost 30 years now. Patricio sent one of the first emails from university to university … Continue reading

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