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By Ron Jackson
.US
domain registrations
surged for the seventh consecutive month in April
2022, adding 16,823 domains to push the
American ccTLD's total to 1,839,273. Over the past
three months the .US total has risen 4.5% and in the
10 months since ADN launched last July, .US is up 8.75%
- a far faster growth rate than the ccTLD market at
large (every nation on earth and a variety of regions has an
official ccTLD of their own. Germany's .de,
the United
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Kingdom's
.uk, Canada's .ca and the USA's .us are
just a few examples of the more than 300 top level country
code domains on the internet).
If
the average .US monthly growth rate for this year
continues in May and June, .US will reach July 1 with a year
over year jump of 11.4% and a six-figure increase in
domains registered. By comparison, Verisign's
latest Domain
Name Industry Brief reported that the
overall ccTLD market dropped 4% last year with all of
that drop (and then some) caused by one TLD - China's .cn,
after it underwent a reduction that lopped a whopping 9.4
million domains from the TLD. However, even after taking .cn
out of the mix, the overall ccTLD market's growth rate,
while solid, was limited to 3.8%. With two months to
go, .US is on track to triple that level of increase
in the year ending July 1.
Posted
May 1, 2022. Permalink for this story:
https://www.adn.us/news-views/2022/0501.htm
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