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While the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated the digital transformation process, the number of registered country domain extension worldwide reached 148.8 million. Turkey ranked first among 200 countries in the country domain name extension usage.

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ISTANBUL (TR) - The year 2020 will be remembered in the future with the Covid-19 pandemic and the digitalization processes of the whole world. Changing the dynamics of many areas from corporate structures to business practices, from education to social life, the Сovid-19 pandemic has visibly accelerated the digitalization process of the whole world. In this process, the increase in internet description, domain name usage and registrations also spurred on. According to the domain statistics of 2020 countries shared by ICANN accredited registrar Atak Domain, which sells domain names to more than 150 countries; the number of registered country extension domain names worldwide reached 148.8 million.

Turkey has exceeded 79% in the use of the country domain name extension

According to the number of registrations worldwide, the most popular registered country extension with 19.2 million domain names was the ".tk" extension - Tokelau region, which was included in the list of non-self-governing countries by the United Nations of New Zealand. China, with the extension of ".cn", one of the world's technology giant countries with 18.6 million, took the second place. Germany, one of the industrial giant countries, ranked third with a registered ".de" extension of 13.3 million, England ranked fourth with a registered extension of 10.2 million "co.uk" and Russia ranked fifth with 7.5 million. When we look at the rate of the country domain name extension usage in their own countries, Turkey is on the top of the list with 79,63%. Country is followed by France with 74.45%, Italy with 72.76%, Norway with 71.70% and India with 70.94%.

“Turkey will try to lead with the introduction o TRABİS”

ATAK Domain General Manager Bahaddin Yazıcı, commented on the subject, “Due to document requirements number of ‘com.tr ' domain names with extension registered in Turkey is 334 thousand 514. But in the coming months, with the introduction of registration without documents ‘com.tr” thanks to the Network Information System (TRABIS), Turkey is going to grow into millions like other popular countries.”

"We are operating with more than 10,000 thousand dealers in more than 160 countries, and we have completed our accreditation of the “.tr” domain with TRABIS, which is expected to be operational soon with the slogan ‘One World Domain’. As Atak Domain, we have registered more than 120 thousand domain names for more than 40 thousand customers and we are accredited with all domain name authorities and offer our customers and dealers the opportunity to register with more than 600 thousand domain name extensions. Thus, by registering more than 150 countries such as Chile, Peru, Morocco, Malawi, Oman, Indonesia, Vietnam, we can open the doors of the global world to our customer.”

Netherlands is ahead by the average of daily recording in Europe

According to the data of the first quarter of 2020 shared by Atak Domain, the Netherlands came first with 2,910 records in the European continent daily average record. France with the extension of ".fr" took the second place with 2,310 records, followed by Germany with the extension of ".de" with 1,630 records.

Russia leads the websites with the most traffic

Looking at the Alexa list, it is among the first 1 million websites with the highest traffic; Finding a place with 43 thousand 142 websites with the extension of ".ru", Russia took the lead in the popularity ranking of websites with country-coded domain names. While Germany with the extension of ".de" followed Russia with 20 thousand 82 websites, Brazil with the extension of "com.br" with 20 thousand 845 websites took the third place. Turkey's neighbor Iran, 17 thousand 181 '. "Extension fourth as the website, 13 thousand 100 with the website' co.uk 'moved to the fifth extension England.