Interesting figures from the 2019 annual report

Did you know 2019 was a good year for DNS Belgium? And that internet security was very high on our agenda? These and other facts are available in our annual report with statistics and figures.

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• the growth of .be-domain names in 2019 did not slow down as everyone expected? Net growth even increased by 0.40 percentage points from 0.87% to 1.27%. At the end of 2019 we registered 1,623,842 .be-domain names in total.
• in 2019 we withdrew almost twice as many .be-domain names as the year before? This concerns domain names used for fraud or with wrong holder data.
• 57% of all Belgians chooses .be as the ideal extension for their domain name. This percentage even increased 3% compared to 2018. Next in the list are .com with 16.3%, .eu with 7.3% and .net with 5.5%.
• The sectors ‘trade’, ‘leisure & entertainment’ and ‘construction’ represent the highest percentage of .be websites. Trade: 11%, leisure & entertainment: 7.5% and construction: 5.6%.
• almost 70% of .be-domain names are owned by Belgians. For the rest it is mostly our neighbouring countries that have an interest in a .be-domain name: the Netherlands almost 18%, France 4.5% and Germany 2%.
• Boechout is the municipality with most .be domain names? Per 100 inhabitants there are 37.7, Zutendaal is second with 32.5 and Sint-Martens-Latem third with 31.5 domain names per 100 inhabitants. In the southern part of the country, Sankt-Vith stands out with 12.5 .be domain names per 100 inhabitants.
• that almost two thirds of .be domain names are owned by companies or organisations. A third is owned by private persons.
• That every year the top 3 of our .be- registrars manages a greater share of the domain names. In 2019, that was 28%, an increase in excess of 2% compared to 2018.

Discover all the graphs on 2019.