More .nl sites than there are people actually in the Netherlands lol.
Soluchyte on
And every one of those xyz domains is a scam site
ntrsbandit on
inb4 – ” We staan er weer goed op jongens ”
” Gekoloniseerd ”
Interesting_Ad6562 on
I’m very surprised #3 is .de
Edit: Wow, that’s even better than Valve:
> Verisign’s business model is straightforward: charge $10.26 per year wholesale for every .com domain registration and renewal. With 161 million registry registrations, that produces $1.657 billion in annual revenue. The company has 932 employees — generating $1.78 million in revenue per person — and an operating margin that ranks sixth in the S&P 500.
Edit 2: Wowzers, not even close. Valve has around $50 million revenue per employee. Jeez.
fan_tas_tic on
Dot com is king. I’m surprised .de is more popular than .org. One is a cctld and the other is used internationally (mostly) for organizations.
billy_teats on
That’s because America invented the internet.
Silly_Illustrator_56 on
Crazy that there are nearly the same amount of .de domains as adults in Germany. So statistically every German has one domain?!?!
DoJ-Mole on
Can someone explain like I’m 5 – why, and what is the difference with these? Like I get some stand for countries but what’s the physical difference between a UK company using a .com site or a .uk site
mxforest on
For some reason it does not make sense to me. .net seems way too high compared to .com
Who issues domain names? Im assuming sites like godaddy act as brokers, but who actually creates them? Can I go straight to the source and get them for free instead of using a broker?
![.com holds 44% of all resolved domain names — more than the next 9 TLDs combined [OC]](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/6j386tm5v6qg1-1536x1024.png ".com holds 44% of all resolved domain names — more than the next 9 TLDs combined [OC]")
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More .nl sites than there are people actually in the Netherlands lol.
And every one of those xyz domains is a scam site
inb4 – ” We staan er weer goed op jongens ”
” Gekoloniseerd ”
I’m very surprised #3 is .de
Edit: Wow, that’s even better than Valve:
> Verisign’s business model is straightforward: charge $10.26 per year wholesale for every .com domain registration and renewal. With 161 million registry registrations, that produces $1.657 billion in annual revenue. The company has 932 employees — generating $1.78 million in revenue per person — and an operating margin that ranks sixth in the S&P 500.
Edit 2: Wowzers, not even close. Valve has around $50 million revenue per employee. Jeez.
Dot com is king. I’m surprised .de is more popular than .org. One is a cctld and the other is used internationally (mostly) for organizations.
That’s because America invented the internet.
Crazy that there are nearly the same amount of .de domains as adults in Germany. So statistically every German has one domain?!?!
Can someone explain like I’m 5 – why, and what is the difference with these? Like I get some stand for countries but what’s the physical difference between a UK company using a .com site or a .uk site
For some reason it does not make sense to me. .net seems way too high compared to .com
Note that the numbers include subdomains (according to the article). [According to DENIC](https://www.denic.de/en/products/statistics-about-de/monthly-domain-statistics-of-de/), there are only 18 million .de domains.
We Germans sure love our .de
Who issues domain names? Im assuming sites like godaddy act as brokers, but who actually creates them? Can I go straight to the source and get them for free instead of using a broker?