The number of .be names has risen with almost 17% in 2008. At the end of 2008, there were 859,474 domain names registered with DNS.be. That’s an increase of 16.7% compared with 2007, when there were 736,498 domain names registered.
‘Although there’s a growth in .be registrations the net growth is not as high as the previous years. Growth in the overall number of domain names was 16.7%, which is somewhat lower than in 2007 when there were 22% more domain names compared with 2006’, says Marc Van Wesemael, director of DNS.be.
Although the net growth was a bit lower then last year, the overall number of new registrations rose. In 2008, there were 222,915 new .be names registered, which is 15% more than in 2007.