Registered .IR Domains Top 1.5m

There are 1.57 million domains with dot-IR (.ir) extensions, of which 1.56 million have “.ir only” extensions without “.gov” or “.ac”, according to statistics released by the Iranian National Domain Registration Center (IRNIC).
IRNIC (or NIC.ir), which operates under the auspices of the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, registers Iranian domains. It was launched by Siavash Mirshams Shahshahani, an Iranian mathematician, in 2003.