.ee is the gateway to Estonia!

This year's Nordic Domain Days brought together registries, registrars, investors, service providers, and policy and technology people from across the domain industry in Stockholm. The conversations and presentations kept circling back to the same idea: domain names aren't becoming less important - they're becoming less visible, more automated, and increasingly entangled with trust, data quality, cybersecurity, and AI.

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.