Covid crisis drives surge in 'dot.ie' website registrations

More firms move online as pandemic impacted their physical presence

The Covid crisis has driven a surge in businesses and services moving online and taking a dot.ie website address.

Last year saw a near 30% surge in Irish-based 'dot.ie' website registrations; as companies, community groups and services increasingly migrated online as Covid impacted their physical presence.

In total, 65,113 new 'dot.ie' domains – or website titles – were registered with .IE, Ireland’s national registry for online addresses. That was the highest rate of new business on record and resulted in increases in every county in Ireland for the first time.