With the year 2022 over, it’s time to analyze which were the 10 most used domains around the globe in the past months. In this survey, the .br extension appears in the list of the most popular ones, as noted by HostGator, a multinational company that operates in the hosting and domains market.
By the end of 2022, websites ending in .br accounted for around 5 million global registrations (5,005,843 website addresses registered according to a survey conducted in December by HostGator). The top of the list was the ending .com, with approximately 161 million records.
The top 10 most used domains (also with data provided by the US company Verisign) are below:
- .com – 160.9 million records;
- .cn – 18 million records;
- .de – 17.3 million records;
- .net – 13.2 million records;
- .uk – 11.1 million records;
- .org – 10.6 million records;
- .nl – 6.3 million records;
- .ru – 5.7 million records;
- .br – 5 million records;
- .xyz – 4.2 million records.
When looking only at the ranking of endings related to countries of origin, .br domains move up a few positions in the list and now occupy sixth place, as shown below:
- .cn – 18 million records;
- .de – 17.3 million records;
- .uk – 11.1 million records;
- .nl – 6.3 million records;
- .ru – 5.7 million records;
- .br – 5 million records;
- .au – 4 million records;
- .fr – 4 million records;
- .eu – 3.7 million registrations;
- .it – 3.5 million records.
“These numbers show that the Brazilian market has a lot of room to grow when we talk regarding hosting, whether in projects involving a blog or an e-commerce. The expectation is that 2023 will continue to help see an increase in this number of domains over the next few months”, commented Ricardo Melo, Vice President of Marketing at HostGator Brasil.
Most popular generic categories
A survey carried out by Verisign with data up to the third quarter of 2022 showed that, among the most popular generic domain categories, endings with .online, .store and .site appear as the most used in the world.
See how the distribution looks like below:
- Others – 48.3%;
- .xyz -15,3%;
- .online – 7,1%;
- .top – 6,6%;
- .shop – 4,2%;
- .icu – 3,9%;
- .site – 3,8%;
- .store – 3,1%;
- .cyou – 2,8%;
- .club – 2,5%;
- .live – 2,3%.
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