CNNIC Temporarily Halts New .CN Registrations

CNNIC has temporarily halted new .CN registrations starting January 6, 2010 while CNNIC refines their audit process.
Previous message regarding .CN:
Starting in December 2009, CNNIC, the CN central registry, is only allowing organizations and businesses to register .CN domains. They have also implemented an audit process, where each registrant is required to fill out a CNNIC audit [...]

November 2008 – Domain Name TLD Statistics

Some cool stats I saw @ NP.
Some Domain Name TLD Registration Statistics – Updated November 2008
TLD   Amount Registered    Country
.com      76,635,852         Global Generic
.cn         12,264,615         China
.de         12,148,809         Germany
.net        11,650,307         Global Generic
.org        6,974,034          Global Generic
.uk         6,941,940          United Kingdom
.info       4,968,200          Global Generic
.nl          3,027,794          Netherlands
.eu         2,857,950          European Union
.biz        1,986,910          Global Generic
.it          1,558,995          Italy
.us         1,435,486          United States
.br         1,415,968          Brazil
.ru         1,392,304          Russia
.au         [...]