The latest CENTRstats TLD Market Report has been published. It covers the global status and registration trends in all top-level domains (legacy gTLDs, new gTLDs and ccTLDs), with a specific focus on the European ccTLD market, and includes analysis and predictions on the wider technological and societal forces that could influence domain name registrations throughout 2024 and beyond.
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Highlights from the report
- In the first half of 2023, domain growth among European ccTLDs showed signs of a recovery from a record-breaking low at the beginning of the year to reach a high of 2.2% by September. The year however closed with a median of 1.4% across the top 30 largest ccTLDs in the region.
- Demand ratios averaged 1.1 meaning on average more domains are being registered than deleted.
- European ccTLDs are estimated to have around 54%2 (median) market share based on their locally registered domains.
- The median registrar price to buy a European ccTLD decreased over 2023 and recently was recorded at 9.4 EUR. The same registrars sell .com at 12.5 EUR.
- DNSSEC adoption rate is at 10.5% and is continuing to grow consistently.
- The rate of developed websites using SSL has been increasingly consistent and was recently recorded at 77%.
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