There are now nine million active .UK domain names registered, the registry, Nominet, announced Monday, confirming its position as the world’s second largest ccTLD and fourth largest TLD overall. For those interested in the trivia of what domain name pushed .UK across the mark, it was active2011.co.uk, registered by the Nirvana Spa and Pulse 8 Health & Fitness Club based in Wokingham. 2010 has seen especially strong growth for .UK, with a net increase of one million domains registered in the last year, an annual growth rate of over eleven per cent.

New York, NY (Vocus) August 31, 2010 Namecheap, a leading domain name registrar and web hosting provider , will be hosting its first “Back to School” riddles trivia contest on Twitter, featuring thousands of dollars in prizes that include domain name credits and grand prizes of a 16GB WiFi iPad or the all new Amazon Kindle. The contest is scheduled to begin on September 1st and will run through September 7th. “We love building up a strong community around the Namecheap brand, and we’ve found that our trivia contests bring our valued customers together,” says Richard Kirkendall, CEO of Namecheap.

As previously reported, the four millionth .NL domain name was registered this week. On reaching the four million mark, SIDN also announced they are the ccTLD with the highest number of registered domain names per person in the respective country with almost one domain name registered for every four of the 16.8 million residents of The Netherlands. For those interested in the trivia of who, when and where, the four millionth domain was supposedly registered by Tom ter Heerdt from Didam in The Netherlands who registered the domain name tomgoesusa.nl about midday on 18 August.