Sunday morning, February 14th 2010, the 1 millionth .be domain name was registered. DNS.be (.be registry) is very pleased with the reach of this new milestone. At the end of December 2009, 977,998 .be domain names were registered. The reach of the amount of 1 million .be names by half February 2010 is only positive.

Together with this great news, DNS.be also announced that 2009 was a great year for .be registrations. Last year, 232,746 new .be names were registered, which is 4,4% more than during 2008 when 222,919 new names were registered.

Another evolution is that more and more individuals start registering .be names. During 2008, 30% of the population did so, this number rose to 34% during last year.

Finally we note that 7 to 10 registered .be domain names are active on the Internet. The other 30% of the registered domain names are for instance being used for the creation of private email addresses.

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