Verisign’s Domain Name Industry Brief for the first quarter of 2021 has shown a decrease of 0.8% in domain name registration numbers across all Top Level Domains (TLDs) when compared with the fourth quarter of 2020.
The decrease highlighted in the Brief seems, at first glance, to buck the trend observed in a number of ccTLDs, such as Germany, the Czech Republic, Greece and The Netherlands, which experienced increases as high as 20% over the past year, as was reported by Belgium in its 2020 Annual Report.
The Brief notes that, as of 31 March 2021, the largest TLDs by number of reported domain names were .COM, .TK (Tokelau), .CN (China), .DE (Germany), .NET, .UK (United Kingdom), .ORG, .NL (the Netherlands), .RU (Russia) and .BR (Brazil).
-Anchovy News, June 2021