[CPWG] Quick check of African ccTLD and gTLD website market

Thu Aug 31 12:42:50 UTC 2023

John

Do you have any historical data for European countries?

I know that 20 odd years back a lot of the Irish internet, and I assume other countries’, was hosted in the US and elsewhere due to costs.

Regards

Michele

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As per my comment inthe CPGW discussion today, I took a look at some of
the African ccTLDs and the gTLD website counts. The African ccTLD
figures are from AFTLD.org and the gTLD websites are from a full gTLD
survey (August 2023) that I run every month. The IP to country
resolution still needs to be tweaked a bit.

Some of the Freedom ccTLDs have exceptionally high numbers of ccTLD
domain names and the vast majority are not associated with the
countries. Gabon has terminated its ccTLD agreement with Freenom.

The Seychelles gTLD website figure is abnormally high due to Seychelles
IP addresses having been acquired by non-Seychelles companies.

The big operator in the ICANN AF region is South Africa and many
non-South African websites are hosted on South African IP addresses.
Many domain names and hosters in the AF region use hosting outside of
their country and there are certain patterns to where they are hosted.

Regards...jmcc

Country - ccTLD - ccTLD Doms - gTLD websites.
Angola  ao      726     107
Burkina Faso    bf      1,503   34
Burundi bi      2,944   11
Benin   bj      1,358   24
Botswana        bw      9,384   100
Congo (Dem Republic)    cd      5,797   174
Central African Republic        cf      2,382,938       1
Republic of Congo       cg              38
Côte d'Ivoire   ci      19,300  708
Cameroon        cm      43,146  125
Cape Verde      cv      2,184   19
Djibouti        dj      7,604   9
Algeria dz      11,918  857
Egypt   eg      10,205  4,519
Western Sahara  eh      0       1
Eritrea er              0
Ethiopia        et      2,684   178
Gabon   ga      2,973,094       22
Ghana   gh      2,682   381
Gambia  gm      1,461   7
Guinea  gn      381     17
Equatorial Guinea       gq      2,148,087       18
Guinea-Bissau   gw      212     3
Kenya   ke      100,253 3,852
Comoros km      300     1
Liberia lr      360     8
Lesotho ls      1,720   7
Libya   ly      17,773  46
Morocco ma      80,940  9,188
Madagascar      mg      4,180   93
Mali    ml      1,276,782       95
Mauritania      mr      747     7
Mauritius       mu      9,095   974
Malawi  mw      1,969   181
Mozambique      mz      6,097   83
Namibia na      4,366   456
Niger   ne      692     9
Nigeria ng      153,665 812
Rwanda  rw      4,537   138
Seychelles      sc      5,148   3,612,645
Sudan   sd      3,671   99
Sierra Leone    sl      1,605   3
Senegal sn      5,115   139
Somalia so      10,176  264
South Sudan     ss              9
Sao Tome and Principe   st              2
Swaziland       sz      1,670   49
Chad    td      655     4
Togo    tg      1,566   34
Tunisia tn      42,914  3,341
Tanzania        tz      18,756  287
Uganda  ug      7,430   200
South Africa    za      1,232,416       903,422
Zambia  zm      6,162   81
Zimbabwe        zw      38,753  175

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