CENTR’s the not for profit organization dedicated to supporting the interest of country code TLD managers which represent around 80% of the total number of ccTLD domain name registrations worldwide, released its quarterly publication covering basic domain name statistics with a focus on European ccTLDs (country code Top Level Domains).
As at May 2014 the total number of domains across all Top Level Domains (TLDs) stood at 278.8 million
Registrations % Change (Quarter)
ccTLD 127,260,470 2.2%
ccTLD IDN 1,210,27 1.2%
gTLD 148,394,305 0.6%
sTLD 1,102,214 6.6%
New gTLD 863,324 NA
Total 278,830,585 1.6%
This represents a growth of roughly 1.6 % since February 2013 ( 4.3 million registrations)
Growth not including new gTLDs is 1.3%
In terms of the quarter growth, ccTLDs grew at the highest rate gaining 2.2 % compared to legacy gTLDs which gained 0.6 %.
The global market share of ccTLDs ( as a percentage of all TLD registrations ) has been increasing over the past few quarters and currently stands are 45.8%
The top 20 largest ccTLDs represent roughly 82 % of all ccTLD registrations globally and 37 % of all domain names globally (gTLDs, ccTLDs etc):
Here are the ccTLD with the highest growth in the Quarter:
Tokelau (.tk) 7.6%: Over 23 million reported domain names. It is important to note that .TK offers mostly free domains a global level and gets its revenue based on a fundamentally different business model than traditional ccTLDs
Brazil (.br) 2.9%
China (.cn) 2.8%
Australia (.au) 2.2%
Canada (.ca) 1.6%
Switzerland (.ch) 1.4%
France (.fr) 1.3%
Netherlands (.nl) 1.2%
Belgium (.be) 1.1%
Spain (.es) 1%