ccTLD Market Share Catching Up to gTLDs, CENTR Reports

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ccTLD Market Share Catching Up to gTLDs, CENTR Reports

By CircleID Reporter
September 25, 2013, 4:19 pm PDT Views: 7,300 Add Comment

Council of European National Top level Domain Registries (CENTR) has released its latest quarterly Domain Name Stat Report stating that ccTLDs have continued increasing their market share against gTLDs—this quarter rising from 44% to 45%. ccTLD IDNs continue to grow although at a slightly lower rate.

From the report: European ccTLDs closed August 2013 with just over 65.1 million domains under management. Over the past 12 months, overall net growth is 5.9%—an increase of around 3.6 million domains with the largest contribution from .RU with 780 thousand domains. Although the 12 month growth rates for European ccTLDs are trending downward (April 12 month rate was 6.6%), they remain on average 2.5% higher than gTLDs globally. The chart to the right shows monthly growth of European ccTLDs alongside global gTLDs for reference. The average monthly growth of all European ccTLDs is 0.47%.

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