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 comments disabled.
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#1. June 12th, 2007, at 5:28 PM.

IE ccTLD Breaks 80k Barrier: John mentions that the IE ccTLD has broken the 80 thousand mark.

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#2. June 16th, 2007, at 3:47 PM.

The stats should be appearing soon Richard,
I spidered the entire detected .eu and have been working on parsers for the data (around 1.7M active domains with around 1.35M websites. The hard part is accounting for the way that people break html. :) The .ie should, theoretically be easier to parse.

The personal names domains might actually create a boost because of the less expensive requirements in proving entitlement. At the moment, it would require an RBN and some argument.

The problem is that IEDR might have left it too long as it no longer has control of .ie policy. That control legally passed to ComReg on 15th May 2007 when that legislation was enabled as the result of a Statutory Instrument.