CENTR publishes latest TLD Market Report

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.

Highlights from the report

• Domain growth has been steadily rising throughout 2023, reaching 2.0% in July 2023.
• The median demand ratio (the relationship between new registrations and deletions) is 1.2, up slightly to 1 year prior and similar to long term trends.
• Median market share of European ccTLDs is estimated at 51% based on locally registered domains in the country and 36% based on popular websites.
• The retail price for a European ccTLD increased slightly over the 12 months leading up to July 2023, with a buy price of 10.4 EUR. The same registrars advertises .com domains at 12.6 EUR.
• Median DNSSEC adoption rate recently hit a milestone of 10% (DNSSEC enabled domains as a proportion of domains under management) and is continuing to grow consistently.
• The rate of developed websites using SSL increased 4% in the year to May 2023.

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The print (pdf) version of the report can be found here.