SIDN: less .nl domain names by cleanup all registrars

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The SIDN reports that the decrease of the number of .en domain names in march is caused by two registrars of their portfolio with domain names quite have cleaned. Therefore, the total number of domain names for the first time in ten years.

Tuesday was from SIDN statistics about the month of march, clear that the number of .nl domains with more than five thousand is decreased. Thus, the decline in the number of .nl-domain names to 4.874.418. The reduction was due in march 101.857 domains were abolished, while there are ‘only’ 96.702 new domain names with SIDN were recorded.

Sean Schuurman van Rouwendal, an analyst at the SIDN for .en domain, leave in a note on the figures Tweakers.net know that the decline and the net decrease of the network total number .en-domains are mainly caused by cleanup all of two registrars. They would be approximately 30,000 domain names have been lifted.

According to the SIDN in the first and third quarter a larger number of domain names cancelled. The cleanup all by the two registrars, however, has the consequence that for the first time in ten years a decrease of the total number of domain names. Nevertheless, says the SIDN’t have to worry about the growth of the number of .nl domain names; the number of new domain names would be around 95,000 in one month have remained stable. In addition, the SIDN that .nl-domains in the Netherlands are good for a market share of approximately 70 percent, followed by .com-domains with 15 percent, and .eu domain names with 7 percent.