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While the map is an eye-catching visual, the making of it also presents an opportunity to review and reflect on the changes and challenges of the past 12 months for the ccTLD market. The pandemic presented us all with a unique year in 2020 and at Nominet we saw an influx of new domain name registrations. The peak was immediately after the first national lockdown was announced in March last year: in April, our new domain name registrations hit an eight-year high, a 12% increase compared to the previous month. We continue to see a steady influx of domain name registrations which incorporate terms relating to the pandemic in April 2021, a year on.
We certainly weren’t the only ccTLD to see a surge in registrations during this period. CENTR stats show there was a 20% uplift in domain name registrations at 25 ccTLDs in April 2020 compared to April 2019. Germany is a notable example: the .de namespace increased by 31,274 domain names from end March-end April; the same period in the previous year saw just 13,017. The Australian .au ccTLD also reported massive rises in domain registrations: 48,754 new domains were registered in April, which is a more than 23% increase on its April 2019 figures.
While the map is an eye-catching visual, the making of it also presents an opportunity to review and reflect on the changes and challenges of the past 12 months for the ccTLD market. The pandemic presented us all with a unique year in 2020 and at Nominet we saw an influx of new domain name registrations. The peak was immediately after the first national lockdown was announced in March last year: in April, our new domain name registrations hit an eight-year high, a 12% increase compared to the previous month. We continue to see a steady influx of domain name registrations which incorporate terms relating to the pandemic in April 2021, a year on.
We certainly weren’t the only ccTLD to see a surge in registrations during this period. CENTR stats show there was a 20% uplift in domain name registrations at 25 ccTLDs in April 2020 compared to April 2019. Germany is a notable example: the .de namespace increased by 31,274 domain names from end March-end April; the same period in the previous year saw just 13,017. The Australian .au ccTLD also reported massive rises in domain registrations: 48,754 new domains were registered in April, which is a more than 23% increase on its April 2019 figures.
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