ccTLD Domain Statistics

[jmcc]

I've posted the domain name statistics for 54 ccTLDs over 2008 on www.hosterstats.com/DomainNameCounts2008.php - while it is far from complete, it does cover the statistics of some of the super ccTLDs such as .de, .nl and .cn and .uk. I've also requested some statistics from other registries.

Without domain tasting, .com is being equaled and in some cases eclipsed by the cumulative ccTLD growth. I'm going to do some comparisons of ccTLD growth and gTLD growth.

Regards...jmcc

 

[jmcc]

MWZD,

From the stats that JMCC gave 240,000 ofcourse its not doing well as I hoped. Still Icann figures for June 8, 2008 was at 193,000+ JMCC figures were 174,000 in July it was only 189,000.

Please pay a bit more attention to what is posted. Dot Asia reports for the end of a month and my zone count stats are for the start of each month.

Registry Report - Zone File - Difference
01/02/08-29/02/2008: 19159 - 01/March/2008: 17865 - 1294
01/03/08-31/03/2008: 126280 - 01/April/2008: 120746 - 5534
01/04/08-30/04/2008: 159682 - 01/May/2008: 156201 - 3481
01/05/08-31/05/2008: 177707 - 01/June/2008: 174212 - 3495
01/06/08-30/06/2008: 193882 - 01/July/2008: 189636 - 4246

If the ICANN figures are dated the 8th of the succeeding month (8/March/2008 for the 01/February/2008-29/February period) then the zone file count discrepancy becomes far more understandable.

And 232869 is not 240000. That would be adding over a month's extra growth to the .asia count at the current rate of growth. As for it being behind by 20000-50000, that is more wishful thinking. If they exist then Dot Asia will include them in its registry reports.

Regards...jmcc

 

[mwzd]

Anyway I just sold my second .asia for more than $2,500 (see DNJournal later today/tomorrow) so it's not all bad

Depends who's perspective you look at the sale from :D

There are some big sales in .asia but we'll actually know the status of extension when the landrush term of two years is over.

Thats when we'll know how many domains are developed, how many drop and what is the future of the tld... see .mobi for a case study :D

MWZD, I am not sure if someone named Edmun or Edmun Chung could be the CEO of Dot Asia.

It could be just a random person, because if it is Edmun who has the gut to reply to your post in public could certainly do the same at namepros. I dont thinks that him.

You don't read too well do you?

Or prefer to ignore facts in favour of hype if you do read.

How many people do you know who would have this email - edmon at registry dot asia

 

[chandan]

The .in registry can't supply monthly figures.
Regards...jmcc

what stats they can provide

 

[jmcc]

what stats they can provide

They haven't offered any stats. That's the problem. Nobody outside of the .in registry seems to know how big .in ccTLD is. The last press release was in February and it mentioned that .in was over 400000 domains.

Regards...jmcc

 

[Babyfacemagee]

any chance of getting some .me stats included in the graph now that it's been out for awhile?


BFM

 

[jmcc]

any chance of getting some .me stats included in the graph now that it's been out for awhile?

They didn't respond the first time. I'll ask them again next week. But at a guess (a very rough guess), .me is possibly around 200K domains.

Regards...jmcc

 

[Zegaldis]

Any ccTLD provide Zone file access?

Any ccTLD provide Zone file access?

If you know any of them, please post it here.

Thanks in advance

 

[jmcc]

Added .il (Israel), .ir (Iran), .pl (Poland) ccTLD statistics to the gTLD and ccTLD statistics page:

http://www.hosterstats.com/DomainNameCounts2009.php

The surprising stat is that .cn is from a peak of 14 million .cn domains.

Regards...jmcc

 

[Sam]

Jmcc love your stats. poor tech4, reeling from his "investment". Not suprising IMO, maybe lots of .CN tasted at 1 yuan a piece?

I tasted my only .asia, which was promptly dropped after a whopping 5 hits. The traffic market for .asia is non existent

Sam

 

[jmcc]

Jmcc love your stats. poor tech4, reeling from his "investment". Not suprising IMO, maybe lots of .CN tasted at 1 yuan a piece?

The .cn has been a major problem for .asia sTLD, Sam,
The drop was a bit surprising but .cn would have a very large number of speculative registrations. The price makes tasting very cheap too. The .asia hasn't been going too well but it is now in its Junk Dump phase and it hasn't had the kind of sustained new registration volume that .mobi had during its Junk Dump phase.

The figures for .asia over the last few days are:
25/April/2009: 240018
26/April/2009: 239529
27/April/2009: 239316
28/April/2009: 238898
29/April/2009: 238808

The real drops haven't kicked in yet and it is only in late May or early June that the dropped domains will start disappearing from the zone file in high volumes. The .asia sTLD is really a long bet as it will take at least five years for it to become an established regional TLD.

I tasted my only .asia, which was promptly dropped after a whopping 5 hits. The traffic market for .asia is non existent

That's the danger of applying dotcom tasting rules to new TLDs. The TLD has to become well known so that people will try direct navigation in the hope there is a site on the domain. Then .cn, .hk, .jp and .kr are doing well in the region and .asia hasn't really made an impact yet.

Regards...jmcc

 

[kleszcz]

I appreciate your efforts. Thanks for the huge data update. Rep added.

I wanted to check the latest info about .in and .cn but I couldn't find them.

 

[jmcc]

I appreciate your efforts. Thanks for the huge data update. Rep added.

Thanks. Most of the data has to be updated manually.

I wanted to check the latest info about .in and .cn but I couldn't find them.

The .cn registry has only published the figures up to the end of April. The .in registry doesn't publish stats but based on some information from March 2009, the figure for .in was about 480K domains. It may be in the 500K region at the moment.

The interesting thing is that the .asia sTLD seems to be over the bulk of its Junk Dump drops and the rate of deletions has begun to decrease.

Regards...jmcc

 

[netfleet]

Hi jmcc,

Are you not reporting domain counts by ccTLD anymore? .AU just hit 1.5m last month and they now publish a domain count here - auDA

EDIT: Sorry I can see that you are - just in a different place. Keep up the great work! Thanks

 

[jmcc]

Hi jmcc,

Are you not reporting domain counts by ccTLD anymore? .AU just hit 1.5m last month and they now publish a domain count here - auDA

EDIT: Sorry I can see that you are - just in a different place. Keep up the great work! Thanks

Thanks Netfleet,
That auDA domain counter is a great link as I can now add a more up to date .au figure to the stats. I was working on a global ccTLD stats page that would be updated daily but it got a bit sidelined as I have been working on a new monthly Excel report on the historical domain counts for about 70K hosters that will be launched next week. (It is a 55MB workbook with the stats for every hoster with more than 50 domains hosted over com/net/org/biz/info/mobi/asia. The hard part is not the work but actually figuring out how to price it. )

Regards...jmcc

 

[dotker]

just came across this one but if ever its posted pls delete.

Domain Counts & Internet Statistics
Domain Names

 

[jmcc]

just came across this one but if ever its posted pls delete.

The Webhosting.info statistics are over 2.6 Million domains in error. But the Domaintools figures are more accurate.

Regards...jmcc

 

[sanbio]

CCTLD Sales

I list cctld sales I learn of them at www.genericcctlds.com

 

[jmcc]

I've just updated the 2009 ccTLD statistics for 37 ccTLDs. The .cn was still the largest ccTLD at the end of 2009 and it is narrowly ahead of .de ccTLD.

HosterStats.com: gTLD and ccTLD Domain Name Counts 2009

Regards...jmcc

 

[jmcc]

The order of the top Global ccTLDs has changed with .cn dropping to third place behind Germany's .de and the UK's .uk ccTLDs.

As of April 2010, the domain counts are:
.de ccTLD: 13,630,401
.uk ccTLD: 8.483,010
.cn ccTLD: 8,254,681

Regards...jmcc

 

[aceeca]

The order of the top Global ccTLDs has changed with .cn dropping to third place behind Germany's .de and the UK's .uk ccTLDs.

As of April 2010, the domain counts are:
.de ccTLD: 13,630,401
.uk ccTLD: 8.483,010
.cn ccTLD: 8,254,681

Regards...jmcc

Thank you. Another thing I noticed was that .ASIA in a constant decline and .TEL is on a rise.