Taking a look back at country codes in 2016, the same players were at the top. Year in and year out .de and .co.uk normally top the sales charts by volume.
In 2016 as reported by DNJournal.com, there were 16 .de sales and 15 .co.uk sales. The Dutch extension came in third with the .nl extension posting 9 sales.
The .co.uk extension dominated the top 5 taking 3 out of the top 5 spots. There were only two six figure sales and they both belonged to the .co.uk extension.
Full list:
.de 16
.co.uk 15
.nl 9
.co 8
io 7
.tv 6
.at 6
.it 5
.eu 5
.ca 5
.in 2
.gg 2
.pl 2
.pt 2
.es 1
.gl 1
.pe 1
.re 1
.ch 1
.us 1
.com.mx 1
.me 1
.hn 1
.com.au 1
Why British don’t prefer shorter .UK names? They are so conservative, or unable to adjust? Life is an evolution, and so is Internet and domain space. Wake up, folks…
You won’t see many .uk sales because in most cases you need to own the co.uk to get rights to the .uk.
People also trust co.uk, it’s a similar situation to where all these gtld pushers try to move people away from .com.
Mike, Wake up yourself!! Shorter is not always better. You don’t know all!
.UK all the way! 🙂
UK end users are not fully up to speed with the advantages of using .uk domains. Its similar to a visitor seeing domainname.co instead of domainname.com = the latter will convert better as it has built up trust over many years online. The same applies with .co.uk, more trust so converts better.