Germany’s .de is Most Popular ccTLD

It’s no contest that .com domains are the most popular ones today — over 71 million of them registered as of February 2008. We might also think that the .net domains will come in second. Well, according to EuropeRegistry, it looks like Germany‘s country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) has surpassed the dotNet TLD to get the second place globally.

The following list represents current statistics for several of the worlds most popular domains:

.com – 71,619,962 Global Generic
.de – 11,673,388 Germany
.net – 10,623,637 Global Generic
.cn – 9,001,993 China
.uk – 6,486,829 United Kingdom
.org – 6,373,837 Global Generic
.info – 4,948,539 Global Generic
.eu – 2,715,101 European Union
.nl – 2,695,568 Netherlands
.biz – 1,903,406 Global Generic
.it – 1,456,787 Italy
.us – 1,375,779 United State
.br – 1,230,870 Brazil
.ch – 1,056,751 Switzerland
.ru – 1,030,951 Russia
.au – 1,007,458 Australia
.jp – 988,886 Japan
.fr – 988,421 France
.ca – 943,341 Canada
.kr – 930,485 Korea
.dk – 864,845 – Denmark
.es – 805,327 Spain
.mobi – 799,551 Global Generic
.pl – 762,503 Poland
.be – 736,499 Belgium
.at – 722,193 Austria
.se – 702,199 Sweden
.cz – 370,642 Czech
.no – 361,118 Norway
.nz – 314,053 New Zealand
.mx – 231,047 Mexico
.pt – 184,650 Portugal
.fi – 165,252 Finland
.hk – 152,405 Hong Kong
.tr – 146,083 Turkey
.sk – 140,319 Slovakia
.ie – 91,353 Ireland
.lt – 65,944 Lithuania

The numbers are based on February 2008 statistics. There’s no figure for the Philippines dotPH ccTLD but if I’d make a guess, it could be somewhere in the vicinity of Mexico’s 230,000.

At $35PHP 2,054INR 2,966EUR 33CNY 255 a year, that’s an $8PHP 469INR 678EUR 8CNY 58 million industry.