Spain’s ccTLD, .es, has passed the one million mark for total domain registrations. This milestone was made possible due to the liberalisation of the registration rules, which happened two years ago. For the first time ever, in 2007, the country saw more .es domains registered than .com’s. [via Domain Pulse] Sharevar el = document.getElementById('share-link-498392313');el.params = {title: '.ES Passes [...]

A Spanish man is holding several government domain names for ransom until the Prime Minister agrees to correct the country’s “inequalities” in water supply and transfer water to all of the country’s drought stricken regions. Sharevar el = document.getElementById('share-link-764034784');el.params = {title: 'Spanish Government’s Domain Names Held Ransom', link: 'http://www.domainnamenews.com/cctlds/spanish-governments-domain-names-held-ransom/1551', skin: 'blue', content: 'http://www.domainnamenews.com/?ibegin_share_action=get_content&id=1551'};