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Sean
Schuurman van Rouwendal
Marketing Analyst, SIDN
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.NL
is administered by SIDN
(Stichting Internet
Domeinregistratie Nederland).
A post by their Marketing
Analyst, Sean
Schuurman van Rouwendal,
on the SIDN
blog today broke
down the extension's results
for the most recent quarter.
The total number of .NL
registrations rose to 5,643,201
at the end of 2Q-2016 after
posting an overall gain of
more than 25,000
domains in the second quarter
when over 204,000 new
names were registered and a
little over 182,000
deleted.
Schuurman
van Rouwendal noted, "Growth
was higher than expected
because the number of
cancellations was not as high
as anticipated. The
cancellation rate appears to
be slackening throughout
the registrar community.
For some time now, the
registration and cancellation
numbers have followed
near-parallel courses. That is
in contrast to the pattern in
the period up to the middle of
2014, during which
registrations were falling
while cancellations were
rising."
In
his post Sean provide graphs
showing this trend and other
metrics, including the growth
of new gTLDs that will
be of special interest to
those following that category.
Schuurman van Rouwendal said
most new gTLD growth came from
bulk buying in China
at very low price points. How
well that will pay off for
registry operators will of
course depend on how many of
those domains get renewed.
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