Ireland’s .ie ccTLD Tops 80K Domains

Ireland’s .ie ccTLD went over 80,000 domains registered yesterday. It was a landmark for a country code domain that had been mired in controversy only a few years ago. The next psychological barrier for .ie will be the 100K mark. The growth in .ie ccTLD is not happening at the expense of .com TLD. There is a clear growth pattern as more and more Irish businesses become web aware. The .eu fiasco, where the utterly incompetent EURid completely banjaxed .eu for citizens of the EU, has highlighted the value of a good, better run and more trustworthy ccTLD.

If the Personal Name Domains (as covered by Michele on his blog) are implemented later this year, it could drive .ie over the 100K mark rapidly. At the moment, registering personal names in the .ie ccTLD is somewhat problematic. And the idea gets floated to unsuspecting technology journalists quite frequently. The technology journalists often thinks that they are getting a great new insight but in reality, the same idea has been floating around for years - even back to the Fagan days of IEDR.

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Written by John McCormac on June 12th, 2007 with 3 comments.
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