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The ccTLD for Ireland, .IE, came back into operation today after suffering one of its longest outages.

Google Chrome has managed to retain its position of prevalence over Internet Explorer for a second consecutive month according to data from web analytics firm StatCounter.

2011 was a stellar year for .IE domains as the IE Domain Registry (IEDR), the body charged with managing Ireland's official top-level domain (TLD), today reported that the total number of registered .IE domains grew by 12.9% in 2011, reaching 173,145 at year's end.

In this edition of the data blog we look at the Irish Web Awards in numbers. The awards’ nominations were revealed today and we are very pleased to be nominated in The Best Technology Site.

Chrome, Google's three-year old web browser, is set to overtake Firefox in terms of global browser market share by the end of November, according to projections made by this author and based on data from StatCounter.

"Anecdotal evidence” suggests that Irish entrepreneurs, including people made redundant during the recession, are turning to the web and the .IE domain.

More .IE domains were registered in Ireland in the first five months of 2011 than during the same periods over the past nine years, according to data available on the .IE domain registry website.

Over half of Facebook users prefer to use Google’s Chrome browser, according to the evolving results of an ongoing Facebook Question. Out of the 1,037,303 Facebook users who have answered the browser related question at the time of writing, 51.66% of those surveyed chose Google Chrome as their first choice web browser.

Looking at statistical web browsing data from StatCounter GlobalStats, a phenomenon quickly becomes evident where users migrate from Internet Explorer in their droves at weekends, and resume the familiarity of browsers like Firefox and Chrome that they’ve become accustomed to.