Last year SIDN (.nl registry) registered a growth of 18% new registrations for the .nl domain. In 2008, 495.673 new .nl names were registered. At the end of 2008, the total amount of registered .nl domains was 3.191.127. Moreover, it turned out that the Netherlands have the highest domain name concentration in the world. Per 100 inhabitants, 28 domain names are registered. Just to compare, in Belgium 9 domain names per 100 inhabitants are registered.
The .nl extension is also doing very well worldwide. It is the 4th biggest extension in the world among the country extensions after .cn (China), .co.uk (United Kingdom) and .de (Germany). Moreover .nl seems also to be very popular among individuals. Of all the registered .nl domains, 38% are registered by individuals. Of course it’s quite clear that individuals are a very important growth segment for .nl