CENTR has published its DomainWire Stat Report, a publication covering basic Internet statistics related to domain names with a focus on the European domain name registries. Every half a year, the organization offers its view on current domain trends, with this month's survey covering yearly results for the most popular TLDs, including Russian top-level domains.
The total number of domain name registrations is roughly 245 million, of which 42% are ccTLD registrations and 58% gTLD names. .com is the largest gTLD with around 75% (around 103 million registrations) of all gTLD registrations. The largest IDN is still .рф, the IDN ccTLD for the Russian Federation, with around 840,000 registrations. Russia's .RU has entered both the top 20 of the largest ccTLDs in the world and top 5 of the fastest growing TLDs. The highest growth (year on year) has been achieved by .cn (China) at around 26.6%, followed by .CO (Columbia) with an increase of 25.1% year-on-year, .RU (Russia) with 16%, .FR (16%) and .BR (15%). The ccTLD marketshare is the largest in the Eastern Europe, with 87% of Slovak citizens choosing to register a domain name in the country's ccTLD. The rate is even higher in Serbia and Montenegro, with 90% and 99% correspondingly. In Russia, 83% of the domain owners choose national domains, meaning that five out of six domains registered by Russians are either in .RU or in .РФ. Poland (84%), Czech Republic (84%), Romania (82%) and Hungary (78%) all demonstrate consistently high rates of the ccTLD marketshare as well. The local ccTLD marketshare varies largely in the Western Europe, from 12% in Andorra to 79% in Belgium, with 36% in France and 43% in Spain. Overall, there are 61,7 million domain names in Europe as of now. The full version of the DomainWire Stat Report can be found at the CENTR website.
