According to a new report out today (PDF) by CENTR, which is the European country code TLD organisation, as of December 31, there are 311.5 million domain names in the world.
158.7 million domain names are Legacy TLD’s including .com, .net and .org; 140.1 million are ccTLD’s (country codes), 1.6 Million are IDN ccTLD’s, and 10.9 Million are New gTLD’s.
The top 10 ccTLD’s are listed by the CENTR are:
COUNTRY / ccTLD DOMAINS(millions)
China (.CN) 16.4
Germany (.DE) 16.0
United Kingdom (.UK) 10.6
Netherlands (.NL) 5.6
Russian Federation (.RU) 5.0
European Union (.EU) 3.9
Brazil (.BR) 3.7
Australia (.AU) 3.0
France (.FR) 2.9
Italy (.IT) 2.9
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158.7 million domain names are Legacy TLD’s including .com, .net and .org; 140.1 million are ccTLD’s (country codes), 1.6 Million are IDN ccTLD’s, and 10.9 Million are New gTLD’s.
The top 10 ccTLD’s are listed by the CENTR are:
COUNTRY / ccTLD DOMAINS(millions)
China (.CN) 16.4
Germany (.DE) 16.0
United Kingdom (.UK) 10.6
Netherlands (.NL) 5.6
Russian Federation (.RU) 5.0
European Union (.EU) 3.9
Brazil (.BR) 3.7
Australia (.AU) 3.0
France (.FR) 2.9
Italy (.IT) 2.9
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