National domain of Belarus .BY is turning 21. In many countries 21 – is the age of full adulthood. .BY domain celebrates its 21st birthday with excellent results. Second year in a row it demonstrates the best growth dynamics among all ccTLDs of European countries. Technical equipment of the domains, including the work of WHOIS and support of DNSSEC and IPv6 is fully consistent with international standards. The number of registrations in the domain is close to 120 thousand, more than a half were registered in the past 3 years.
In addition, domain .BY should be recognized as national in the full sense of the word: 80% of Belarus users choose names for their domains in .BY domain zone. More than 60% register names associated with actual functioning sites. Talking about the sites themselves, the most popular systems of content management in Belarus are Joomla and Wordpress, which account for 63% of all Belarus webpages.
