As of August 1, 2014 there are 282,525,140 domain name registered in the world.
CENTR is the European ccTLD not for profit association dedicated to supporting the interest of country code TLD managers. The objectives of CENTR are to promote and participate in the development of high standards and best practices among ccTLD Registries. CENTR has 52 Full members and 9 Associate members who all together represent around 80% of the total number of ccTLD domain name registrations worldwide”
As at August 2014 the total number of domains across all Top Level Domains (TLDs) stood at 282.5 million (including new gTLDs). This represents a growth of roughly 1.6% since May 2014 (4.5 million registrations).
ccTLDs grew at the highest rate for the past 3 months at 1.7% – this compares with 0.3% for legacy gTLDs.
The global market share of ccTLDs (as a percentage of all TLD registrations) has been increasing over the past few quarters – it currently stands at 45.8% (see left). As more new gTLDs are introduced, this report will continue to monitor and report on the global domain name market in the new landscape.
The current market share of new gTLDs is around 0.7% however it is growing consistently.
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Top 20 ccTLDs by Registrations |
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Tokelau (.TK) 26 Million Germany (.DE) 15.7 Million China (.CN) 10.8 Million United Kingdom (.UK) 10.5 Million Netherlands (.NL) 5.5 Million Russian Federation (.RU) 4.9 Million European Union (.EU) 3.8 Million Brazil (.BR) 3.5 Million Australia (.AU) 2.9 Million France (.FR) 2.8 Million Italy (.IT) 2.7 Million Argentina (.AR) 2.6 Million Poland (.PL) 2.5 Million Canada (.CA) 2.3 Million Switzerland (.CH) 1.9 Million United States (.US) 1.8 Million Spain (.ES) 1.7 Million Colombia (.CO) 1.7 Million India (.IN) 1.5 Million Belgium (.BE) 1.5 Million
The top 20 largest ccTLDs represent roughly 82% of all ccTLD registrations globally and 38% of all domain names globally (gTLDs, ccTLDs etc). The ccTLD for Tokelau (.tk) has the largest zone with 26 million reported domain names. It is important to note that .tk offers mostly free domains on a global level and gets its revenue based on a fundamentally different business model than traditional ccTLDs. From those found in the top 20 list, the table (left) shows some of the highest growth ccTLDs observed in the past quarter. After .tk, China (.cn) experienced the highest growth with 1.8% for this quarter.
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That trend graph is the important news.
Two things to note. (1) The annualized overall growth is only 6.4% (1.6%x4) which is still low. (2) Japan, the 2nd or 3rd largest economy in the world, has only 1.3 million .jp registered and is not even in the Top 20 list.
According to GoDaddy as reported by Gigaom on January 28, 2014,there are 600 million small businesses in the world. When you add up all the other business entities, non-profit organization, etc., there may be over 1 billion potential candidates who need a domain name to build their website. Domain name is still in its infancy. The high growth has not begun yet.