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Germany’s .de is Most Popular ccTLD

It’s no contest that .com domains are the most popular ones today — over 71 million of them registered as of February 2008. We might also think that the .net domains will come in second. Well, according to EuropeRegistry, it looks like Germany’s country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) has surpassed the dotNet TLD to get the second place globally.

The following list represents current statistics for several of the worlds most popular domains:

.com – 71,619,962 Global Generic
.de – 11,673,388 Germany
.net – 10,623,637 Global Generic
.cn – 9,001,993 China
.uk – 6,486,829 United Kingdom
.org – 6,373,837 Global Generic
.info – 4,948,539 Global Generic
.eu – 2,715,101 European Union
.nl – 2,695,568 Netherlands
.biz – 1,903,406 Global Generic
.it – 1,456,787 Italy
.us – 1,375,779 United State
.br – 1,230,870 Brazil
.ch – 1,056,751 Switzerland
.ru – 1,030,951 Russia
.au – 1,007,458 Australia
.jp – 988,886 Japan
.fr – 988,421 France
.ca – 943,341 Canada
.kr – 930,485 Korea
.dk – 864,845 – Denmark
.es – 805,327 Spain
.mobi – 799,551 Global Generic
.pl – 762,503 Poland
.be – 736,499 Belgium
.at – 722,193 Austria
.se – 702,199 Sweden
.cz – 370,642 Czech
.no – 361,118 Norway
.nz – 314,053 New Zealand
.mx – 231,047 Mexico
.pt – 184,650 Portugal
.fi – 165,252 Finland
.hk – 152,405 Hong Kong
.tr – 146,083 Turkey
.sk – 140,319 Slovakia
.ie – 91,353 Ireland
.lt – 65,944 Lithuania

The numbers are based on February 2008 statistics . There’s no figure for the Philippines dotPH ccTLD but if I’d make a guess, it could be somewhere in the vicinity of Mexico’s 230,000.

At $35 a year, that’s an $8 million industry.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

7 Responses

  1. Avatar for Cleveland Yoneda Cleveland Yoneda says:

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  2. Avatar for deuts deuts says:

    I’m in the .net category. Konti lng kami. hehe. Would have been glad to use .ph/.com.ph domains if pareho lng cla ng price ng .com! Poor Philippines.

  3. Avatar for Kenneth Kenneth says:

    No wonder wala ang .ph sa top ccTLD. Hehehe… :lol:

  4. Avatar for ralph ralph says:

    ang yaman na ng .ph

  5. Avatar for Andre Andre says:

    I wonder what .PH registration stats are at?
    dotPH always seems to be scaling down in operations?

  6. Avatar for Kinnison Kinnison says:

    I accessed this post through your RSS feed, but the feed says “.be” while this one’s “.de”
    Just a heads up. :)

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