AFNIC: 2014 Was the Year of the Big Bang for nTLDs

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AFNIC: 2014 Was the Year of the Big Bang for nTLDs

By CircleID Reporter
February 19, 2015, 8:00 pm PST Views: 5,257 Add Comment

AFNIC has released an article providing a global overview of TLDs in 2014 and some thoughts about market prospects in 2015 and 2016. From the article:

“2014 ended with 470 gTLDs (generic top-level domains) in the root, including 39 using non-Latin characters, and 290 ccTLDs (country code top-level domains) of which 41 used non-Latin characters. In all, there were no less than 760 TLDs in the root as at December 31, 2014, or an increase of 89% compared with 2013, and of 147% compared with 2012, the increase mainly being due to the new TLDs.

These figures prove by themselves that the domain name system has radically changed in a few months, more than during the first twenty years of its existence. The number of files still being processed by ICANN suggests that the phenomenon will continue in 2015 and 2016 to reach around 1,350 TLDs by the end of 2016.”

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