.ee is the gateway to Estonia!

Estonia’s national domain has reached a major milestone: the number of registered .ee domains has surpassed 200,000 for the first time. This also shows that .ee is one of the fastest-growing country code domains in Europe. The achievement further reinforces Estonia’s position as a digital society, where a domain name and the website connected to it are important parts of digital identity.

The past few weeks brought three important international meetings that looked at the domain industry from different angles, yet reached many of the same conclusions. CENTR Jamboree brought together European top-level domain registries, Nordic Domain Days focused on practical solutions alongside industry experts, and ICANN83 discussed global internet governance and policy development. One topic stood out most clearly across all three events: DNS abuse and the question of what role registries should play in ensuring internet security.

Last Friday's Meta outage was short, but it was a useful warning for every business that depends too heavily on social platforms. On June 12, Facebook and Instagram experienced service disruptions, in addition problems with Ads Manager tools as well. For some brands, that meant reduced visibility, interrupted campaigns, delayed communication: a reminder that they do not actually control the platforms where much of their audience lives.