According to the recently released Belgium Domain Registry annual report 2008, .be domain registrations grew by 17% in 2008, bringing the total number of .be domains to almost 860,000 at the end of 2008. At the end of June that figure had risen to 924,470.
Some of the biggest trends noted in 2008 were that .be domains are being registered more frequently for short periods (i.e. for the duration of an event), registrations are seldom limited to just one name, and a website and email address(es) now tend to be linked to the name.
Other highlights from the 2008 annual report include:
- in 2008 there were 222,915 new registrations, a 15% increase compared with 2007
- the majority of domain name holders have 2 or more .be domains with each registrant now having an average of almost 7 domains
- only one quarter of registrants have only one .be domain name
- there is an email address and website attached to three quarters of all .be domains
- more short term domain names; the average registration period of .be domains has continued to fall, a trend that began a few years ago
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