L'Afnic publie aujourd'hui le bilan 2023 des noms de domaine en .fr. Plus de 40% des noms de domaine en France sont des .fr. Découvrez tous les autres chiffres.
“So, it is our intention to inform #ICANN early in 2023 that the UK wishes to retire .gb. We expect this to be a straightforward administrative procedure.”
Well .gb is still here 🤔
(Fun fact : .中国 is given as the #ccTLD of China. It is not widely used but gives an example of #IDN)
So one more note about the geopolitics of #ccTLD — can you think of how many "short URLs" depend on ccTLDs in countries that have history of instability in the recent past? And not just on the Web: O'Reilly eBooks depend on the Lybian TLD (.ly)! They shorten URLs for any external reference through their custom shortener domain, so they get analytics about you clicking through, and are susceptible to Libya Telecom changing their mind about them.
Il y a la hype de l'AI, et par conséquent la hype du .ai : selon les quelques chiffres en http://whois.ai/faq.html , le nombre de domaine en .ai est passé d'un peu moins de 50 000 en juillet 2018 à 350 000 fin 2023. Avec la hausse qui devient très nette entre 2022 et 2023 (143 000 domaines en juillet 2022, un peu moins de 250 000 mi-juin 2023 — et donc 100 000 de plus en 6 mois ensuite) #DNS#ccTLD
Eventually, rule were changed, and I kept control of my two domains, but for months I was scrambling, afraid I'd lose access to an email address I've been using for over 11 years by then!
Here's your regular reminder that by picking a cutesy name under some #ccTLD you are necessarily relinquishing full control to the ccTLD owner. @violetblue found out about that when Lybia shut down her vb.ly back in... 2010 or so? Now here is @GossiTheDog noting that queer.af was suspended by the Taliban.
Don't register your domains under a repressive regime's #TLD.
I was checking an expired domain website and found me.th was expired. Curious what the registration would cost, I found they cost upward of $3000 to even register for a year....
Cometh the weekend, cometh the #linkdump. My daily-ish newsletter includes a section called "Hey look at this," with three short links per day, but sometimes those links get backed up and I need to clean house. Here's the eight previous installments:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
The country code top level domain (#ccTLD) for the Caribbean island nation of Anguilla is .ai, and that's turned into millions of dollars worth of royalties as "entrepreneurs" scramble to sprinkle some buzzword-compliant AI stuff on their businesses in the most superficial way possible:
Am 5. November 1986 wurde die Länderkennung .de in der IANA-Datenbank (root-Zone) eingetragen. Damit viel der Startschuss für das Internet in Deutschland. Die Verwaltung wird anfangs in den USA durch den Netzbetreiber CSNET übernommen. 1988 wird die Verwaltung an die Informatikrechner-Betriebsgruppe (IRB) an der Universität Dortmund übertragen, die den Nameserver-Dienst und die Vergabe von IPv4-Adressblöcken übernimmt. Der Dienstleister wird als Network Information Center bezeichnet, kurz NIC. Und da er die Verwaltung von .de übernimmt, ist der Name DENIC geboren. 1993 wurde zunächst der "Interessenverbund Deutsches Network Information Center (IV-DENIC)" gegründet, der die Verwaltung übernahm, bevor 1996 die DENIC-Genossenschaft gegründet wurde, so wie sie heute noch besteht.
Damals waren grad mal 6 Domains registriert, heute sind es fast 18 Millionen, womit .de hinter China die zweitgrößte länderspezifische Top-Level-Domain weltweit ist.
[TIL] The ccTLD of Thailand .th costs over $3000 a year
I was checking an expired domain website and found me.th was expired. Curious what the registration would cost, I found they cost upward of $3000 to even register for a year....