Dear John

For me this information is really valuable to start conversations with our SIDS communities about how much they value their cctld and where they see gtlds featuring in their futures.

SIDS performance wrt their cctlds is quite pitiful really, but as we found when .au called meeting of those Pacific managers who were attending the APNIC meeting in Wellington, last year. They have no idea about how to manage the cctld they have been given charge of, nor how to cope with the increasing security issues etc. Even though many belong to regional NOGs, Im sure that they get upskilled on the technical side of their ISP management but as for customer needs and service for websites, registrants are left on their own, because our small ISP managers themselves are not coping and aren't offering the security services new website owners need to make their services trustworthy. Its a never ending cycle.

But we have to start somewhere.  Thank you for your valuable information.

Maureen

On Mon, 12 Jan 2026, 18:47 John McCormac via CPWG, <cpwg@icann.org> wrote:
Local gTLD web hosting markets for EUR region December 2025

EUR     Germany DE      17,602,324
EUR     United Kingdom  UK      2,014,484
EUR     France  FR      3,494,459
EUR     Netherlands     NL      2,215,517
EUR     Italy   IT      1,692,539
EUR     Russian Federation      RU      945,119
EUR     Spain   ES      1,055,110
EUR     Sweden  SE      387,927
EUR     Switzerland     CH      407,725
EUR     Poland  PL      269,818
EUR     Czech Republic  CZ      233,777
EUR     Ukraine UA      140,638
EUR     Finland FI      381,525
EUR     Denmark DK      481,864
EUR     Estonia EE      34,865
EUR     Norway  NO      171,762
EUR     Bulgaria        BG      170,230
EUR     Portugal        PT      123,880
EUR     European Union  EU      71,325
EUR     Romania RO      68,799
EUR     Croatia HR      29,829
EUR     Latvia  LV      30,549
EUR     Moldova MD      24,360
EUR     Serbia  RS      21,172
EUR     Iceland IS      15,954
EUR     Slovakia        SK      84,215
EUR     Greece  GR      16,771
EUR     Malta   MT      1,302
EUR     Curacao CW      7,165
EUR     Belgium BE      142,755
EUR     Macedonia       MK      531
EUR     Slovenia        SI      31,439
EUR     Virgin Islands (UK)     VG      2,037,384
EUR     Lithuania       LT      1,606,990
EUR     Ireland IE      408,142
EUR     Austria AT      208,655
EUR     Hungary HU      78,108
EUR     Luxembourg      LU      39,074
EUR     Bosnia and Herzegovina  BA      48,147
EUR     Belarus BY      10,807
EUR     Monaco  MC      3,807
EUR     Jersey  JE      1,391
EUR     Anguilla        AI      2,747
EUR     Isle of Man     IM      1,472
EUR     Liechtenstein   LI      395
EUR     Albania AL      1,048
EUR     Cayman Islands  KY      1,015
EUR     Andorra AD      774
EUR     Gibraltar       GI      701
EUR     San Marino      SM      571
EUR     Guernsey        GG      300
EUR     Montenegro      ME      359
EUR     Aaland Islands  AX      334
EUR     Reunion RE      181
EUR     New Caledonia   NC      145
EUR     Guadeloupe      GP      77
EUR     Bouvet Island   BV      124
EUR     Martinique      MQ      59
EUR     Bermuda BM      95
EUR     French Guiana   GF      42
EUR     French Polynesia        PF      79
EUR     Aruba   AW      63
EUR     Vatican City    VA      21
EUR     Faroe Islands   FO      21
EUR     St Pierre and Miquelon  PM      13
EUR     Greenland       GL      14
EUR     Turks and Caicos Islands        TC      13
EUR     Mayotte YT      2
EUR     Kosovo  XK      3
EUR     Falkland Islands        FK      1
EUR     St Helena       SH      0
EUR     Wallis and Futuna       WF      0

Local gTLD web hosting markets for NA region December 2025
NA      United States   US      130,230,000
NA      Canada  CA      6,142,530
NA      Puerto Rico     PR      3,240
NA      Guam    GU      139
NA      Virgin Islands (US)     VI      77
NA      Northern Mariana Islands        MP      33
NA      US minor outlying islands       UM      5
NA      Samoa (American)        AS      2

Some countries with large transnational web hosting providers and CLoud
hosting have larger numbers of gTLD websites. Large Chinese Cloud
hosters use US IP ranges qne Singaporean (SG) ranges. A lot of this is
due to the shortage of IPv4 addresses.

Most European countries have very strong ccTLDs which are often two or
more times the size of the locally registered .COM domain names. The
transnational web hosting providers can often skew the figures for some
countries especially when Parking is taken into consideration. Some web
hosting providers are using Cloud hosting for their services along with
their own web hosting ranges. Most of the Cloud hosters provide details
on the country of their IP addresses (Geofeed) so it is not unusual to
see large Cloud operations having IPs associated with many countries.
Some of the larger web hosting providers also have IP ranges associated
with countries outside their main country. Some IP addresses are flagged
as EU. They are often the ranges of large hosters. (Sorry for the delay
in posting.)

Regards...jmcc
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