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.Co.uk dominated cctld sales in 2016

January 26, 2017 by Raymond Hackney

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

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Filed Under: CCtld, Domain Sales, Domain trends

About Raymond Hackney

Raymond Hackney has been involved with domain names since 1997. One of the most prolific writers in the domain industry and founder of TLDinvestors.com and 3Character.com

Comments

  1. Mike says

    January 26, 2017 at 5:11 pm

    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…

    • Steve says

      January 27, 2017 at 4:51 am

      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.

    • John says

      January 27, 2017 at 12:10 pm

      Mike, Wake up yourself!! Shorter is not always better. You don’t know all!

  2. YamadaMedia says

    January 27, 2017 at 7:35 am

    .UK all the way! 🙂

  3. Gary Yeardley says

    January 27, 2017 at 3:36 pm

    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.

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