Domisfera

Domisfera has been monitoring the official stats provided by the Registry of .cn domains CNNIC. These stats have not been updated since June, but finally CNNIC has published the numbers for July:

On the other side, the German Registry of .dn domains Denic  has published at the end of July 2008 had registered 12,148,809 .de domains.

Therefore China is already the world’s largest ccTLD, with 12,364,615 domains. We must remember that in December 2006 the situation was as follows:

1. Germany (.de): 10,323,544
2. United Kingdom (. uk): 5,463,972
3. Europe (. eu): 2,386,620
4. Netherlands (. nl): 2,158,200
5. China (. cn): 1,296,935 

The promotion began on March 7, 2007 consisting of putting the new .cn domain registered to 1 yuan (0.13$) has proved its worth, with quarterly growth above 20%. In less than two years has multiplied almost  x10 total domains registered and has dislodged the .de domains from the top, a place monopolized by the German ccTLD for many years.

The Chinese dragon has been sleeping very deeply but now is fully awake !