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ccTLDs Rapidly Growing
VeriSign, the global registry operator for .COM/.NET, just released their June 2009 “Domain Industry Brief”. These briefs are highly interesting because they underscore important trends in the domain industry, as well as, point out potential opportunities for insiders to contemplate. According to the report, the domain industry is amazingly expanding at breakneck speed, despite a worldwide recession. At the end of the first quarter of 2009, nearly 183 million domains are registered worldwide. This represents not only a three percent (3%) growth over the fourth quarter of 2008, but more impressively a 12 percent increase over the same quarter of last year!
Interesting enough, HEXONET.NET is also seeing such growth and more specifically an upsurge in ccTLDs (country code Top-Level-Domains). Our ccTLD growth parallels the reports findings that ccTLDs as a subset of TLDs is expanding even faster. In the report, the base of ccTLDs grew to 74.1 million domain names, representing an 18 percent (18%) increase year over year and a four percent increase quarter over quarter. Though the uptake in ccTLDs for the first quarter of 2009 was only 3 million, which is a 39% decrease from the same quarter in 2008, this number represents a 38% increase over the last quarter of 2008!
Top TLDs by Domains Under Management:
1. .COM (gTLD)
2. .CN (China)
3. .DE (Germany)
4. .NET (gTLD)
5. .ORG (gTLD)
6. .UK (The United Kingdom)
7. .INFO (gTLD)
8. .NL (The Netherlands)
9. .EU (European Union)
10. .BIZ (gTLD)Top Noted ccTLDs:
1. .US (ccTLD of the United States) grew by 12 percent (12%), partially as a result of registry promotions
2. .RU (ccTLD of the Russion Federation) grew by 8 percent (8%).
3. .CN (ccTLD of China) grew by 4 percent (4%).Largest ccTLDs:
1. .CN (China)
2. .DE (Germany)
3. .UK (United Kingdom)Source:
Special thanks to our friends at VeriSign for maintaining these reports on an ongoing basis. I recommend you view the entire report, which can be found under >> view
Special thanks to the friends at VeriSign for maintaining these reports on an ongoing basis. Extremely valuable!
HEXONET has long been a proponent of ccTLDs and have endeavored to be the destination for resellers and registrars for all TLDs:
- Over 150 different TLDs from a single provider
- Renown infrastructure speed, reliability and stability
- Connect via six different ways: EPP 1.0 Gateway, HTTPS, SOAP, XML/RPC, Mailrobot, Web Control PanelIn the event that you are interested in registering a large variety of ccTLDs from one source, please visit www.HEXONET.NET or send an email to sales@hexonet.net. Sign-Up is free with no commitment!
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