domisfera China is already the world’s largest ccTLD
by domisfera (Stats, .cn (China), .de (Germany))

2 September 2008 Estimated reading time: 0,39 minutes.

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:

China, the largest ccTLD

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 !

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domisfera Latin American domains stats (February 2008)
by domisfera (Stats)

26 March 2008 Estimated reading time: 1,41 minutes.

The latest statistics domain Latinoamericann aiming to measure the impact of policies for the Information Society in the development of Latin American ccTLDs throw the following details until February 29, 2008.

 Latino American domains up to february 2008

In February ccTLDs that had a higher percentage growth were: Costa Rica .cr (6.72%), Peru .pe (5.33%) and Bolivia .bo (4.44%). The case of Costa Rica is explained by the announcement and the opening of registration of second-level domains. Peru continues to grow due to the opening of IDN domain name registration and second level that has already done in previous months. The case of Bolivia is linked to an aggressive marketing strategy in order to pay for the domain names in installments.

This month highlights the negative growth (-21.22%) .do domains from the Dominican Republic due to the cleansing of records unpaid. Domains .cu of Cuba remain at its usual line had decreased by 0.35%. The .sv domains of El Salvador having had a profound process of purification, have restarted a process of growth.

The largest increases in absolute values of the past month are for Argentina .ar (26,031), Brazil .br (9,854) and Mexico .mx (3,679). These positions are filled by the same ccTLDs that last month, with a higher increase in registered domains.

Latinoamericann could not obtain data from Trinidad and Tobago .tt or Barbados .bb. In the case of Barbados has been a process of redelegation before and while it was possible to perform a whois and view data registered domains this is no longer feasible under the new administration.

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