The .CZ domain name reached another milestone with the total number of domains registered in the namespace breaking through the 1

million mark .

According to Nic.cz website,there are now 1,001,497 .CZ domain name registered.This means that more than 10,000 .CZ domain names are registered each month.

You can read the press release after the jump :

"Today at 5:24 pm, domain name number 1,000,000 appeared in the register of the Czech national domain .CZ maintained by the

CZ. NIC Association.Among the top-level domains of member states of the EU, the .CZ domain became the 12th “millionaire” and is

among those with the fastest growth. Over 10,000 new domains are registered each month.This achievement was helped particularly by

the introduction of the FRED registration system, which is 5 years old this October, and which made the registration process considerably

faster and cheaper.

“The importance of internet domains keeps growing. The primary reason for that is the development of the internet, which is increasingly

becoming an integral part of our lives. And if you want people to find you quickly and easily on the internet, you need a good domain. A

dedicated internet domain is now one of the basic tools of all organisations. Even individuals are recognising its benefits more and more.

The importance of internet domains is also illustrated by the process, which has already started, of extending the domain space with more suffixes. In addition to domain names ending in .CZ, .COM or .EU, next year we may start encountering domain names with the name of a

city or organisation after the last full stop,” says Ondřej Filip, Executive Director of the CZ.NIC Association. “I am glad that in the eyes of domain holders, .CZ remains a prestigious suffix, being by far the most widely used one both for business and personal websites in the Czech Republic. I believe that our active approach to domain security and providing other services for registrars and users also plays its part.”

According to the most recent statistics published by CZ.NIC this April, the share of domain names owned by individuals is gradually

increasing, accounting for 58 per cent of .CZ domains today. Most holders have only a single domain; in 2011, the highest number of .CZ

domains with one owner was 4,054.In terms of regional distribution, the largest number of holders comes from the Central Bohemian

region; the Karlovy Vary region has the lowest representation.

The content analysis of 1,200 randomly selected websites in the .CZ domain shows that the highest percentage of them are company

websites (41 per cent), followed by parked domains (19 per cent), e-shops, and non-functional websites (8 per cent). Personal websites

account for 7 per cent of domains."