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Today DNS.be (.be registry) published a press release<\/a> showing that 2012 was a great year for .be registrations.<\/p>\n In 2012 over 300.000 new names were registered during 1 year for the first time. In 2012 306.341 new .be names were registered to be exact. Because of those new registrations the .be extension<\/a> enters the top 10 of largest European extension. Germany (.de<\/a>) remains the undisputed leader followed by the United Kingdom (.co.uk<\/a>) and the Netherlands (.nl<\/a>). The top 5 is completed by Russia (.ru<\/a>) and France (.fr<\/a>). Place 6 and 7 are taken by Italy (.it<\/a>) and Poland (.pl<\/a>). Belgium currently holds the tenth place in this ranking and can now start chasing Switzerland (.ch<\/a>) and Spain (.es<\/a>), which currently hold the 8th and 9th place.<\/p>\n Furthermore the numbers reveal that 65% of all .be domain names are owned by a Belgian company or individual, 19% of all .be names has an owner for the Netherlands, 6% has an owner from France. The press release also mentions that registering a .be name to link it to a webshop or a blog was very popular in 2012.<\/p>\n At last the numbers show that .be names are spread over different registrars, the top 3 of .be registrars is responsible for 20% of all .be registrations, the top 16 for 50%. Based on this we can conclude that the .be domain name market is a healthy and competitive market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today DNS.be (.be registry) published a press release showing that 2012 was a great year for .be registrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnamed.blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}