The 25 Most Popular Country Code Domain Extensions in the World by Number of Active Domains

Have you ever given much thought to the web domains you are typing in? Individual addresses that take you to places across the globe in seconds. Some domain names are funny while others are straight business. Some domains like thelongestdomainnameintheworldandthensomeandthensomemoreandmore.com just aim to beat a Guinness World Record. What makes up a domain name? Many people don’t know that behind the words in a domain name is a numbered IP address. When you purchase a domain name, it comes with a unique address that the computers use to communicate with and get you to where you want to go. A domain is made up separate parts. The user created domain followed by a dot and then the domain extension. The top-level domain as it is called refers to these extensions. The most common top-level domains being .com, .net, and .org. There are also country specific TLD’s and this graphic from Nominus.com gets into the specifics of these CCTLDs.

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The country specific extension with the most active domains is .de from Germany with 16,141,315. Number two is .uk out of the United Kingdom with 10,593,404 active domains. Number three is .cn from China with 8,980,611 active domains. You can go through each country on this list and see on the map how many country specific active domains there are. Even Antarctica has its own CCTLD even though it is not its own country it still has 102 active domains registered with the extension .aq. Visit the original article to see more visualizations on the top country code top-level domains in the world, generic TLDs, sponsored TLDs, reserved TLDs and more.