It took close to two months for .CO to reach the significant half million active registrations when it became available for general registration following its relaunch in July of this year, but it only took eight days for the Russian Cyrillic domain .РФ (.RF – Russian Federation or Российская Федерация in Cyrillic) to pass the same mark.

Registrations of .IE (Ireland) domain names grew 2.2 per cent in the year to end March 2009 according to figures released last week by the IE Domain Registry (IEDR). While registrations for March totalled 3,686, the highest number recorded in a single month over the past year, and the total number of .IE domains now stands at over 141,000, the figures are low by international standards