In a reaction to reports of pornography appearing on .CN domain names, the Chinese authorities have decided to limit domain ownership to companies only. Individuals may no longer register CN domains.
This move has been accompanied by a tightening of the procedure for company registrations. The Chinese authorities wish to be sure that CN domains [...]

Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) were opened on .EU domains this week. During the first hour 38,172 EU IDN’s were successfully registered..

“The significant number of registered names during the first hour shows how important it is for people across Europe to be able to access and use the internet in their own languages” said EURid’s [...]

DotAsia plans to launch IDN or Internationalised Domain Names in the second half of 2010.Their policy for IDN will be finalised in March 2010 after the APRICOT conference in Kuala Lumpur.
“Asia is one of the most important regions for IDN. Asia is already the largest Internet marketplace with over 700 million users online. However, [...]

The CZ.NIC association has reported that 600′000 CZ domains have been registered as of September 30 2009. IT has taken less than 10 months to get to the first 1/2 million CZ domains registered.
They attribute this success to their new domain registration system, named FRED which has speeded up the process and allowed [...]

The OpenSRS blog series on domain registrars continues with the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), who operate the .CA (Canadian) domain name. They have a renewal rate of 74% and an annual growth rate of 20%.
Some of the statistics they bring to our attention:

The first .CA domain name ever registered was upei.ca (1988)
There are [...]

The .ME domain extension is technically for the geographic location of Montenegro, however it is now being marketed far beyond these shores. There are obvious uses of the domain as a personal domain, i.e. myname.me but there are wider uses within the personalised web. For example. brands can adopt the domain name and develop a [...]

September 19th marked the 19th Year Anniversary for the .SU (Soviet Union) domain. The SU extension was delegated to the USSR in 1990, one year before the collapse of the Soviet Union and 3.5 years before the creation of the Russian ccTLD RU.
“Domain SU was not delegated to the Soviet Union (although technically [...]

EuroID, the Registry for the EU (European) domain extension are planning to open Internationalised (IDN) registrations in December.
EURid is pleased to announce that .eu will support internationalised domain names (IDNs) effective 10 December. For the first time, residents of the European Union will be able to register a .eu domain name made up of non-Latin [...]

NIC Mexico (Network Information Center Mexico), the registry and administrators

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