The fastest growing country code top-level domain is .ME. The .ME Registry just announced that the extension has hit a quarter million domains registered.

"This is the kind of reaction we always knew we would elicit with dot-ME," says Predrag Lesic, executive director of the .ME Registry. "Dot-ME has become an Internet phenomenon."

People have long relied on phonebooks to find phone numbers and addresses, but the paper versions get put out just once per year.  Sites’ "About Us" pages can be updated anytime, but require that users do some clicking around.  So a new top-level domain extension spelled ".tel" is opening with an aim to solve all sorts of contact-related problems like these.

A new toolkit has been unveiled by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for website designers and software application developers so that new top-level domains (TLDs) created since 2001 are recognized in software and online applications.

The ICANN toolkit will save developers and site operators both time and money by eliminating the need to reprogram their systems when a new top-level domain is added.