Leading ccTLDs by number of domains 2023

As of July 2023, China's .cn was the most popular country code top-level domain (ccTLD) worldwide with approximately 29.98 million registrations. Tokelau's .tk was ranked second with 27.49 million registered domains. During the measured period there were approximately 272 million domains registered to country TLDs.

Leading country code top level domains (ccTLD) as of July 2023, by number of registered domains (in millions)

Characteristic	Number of domains in millions
China .cn	29.98
Tokelau .tk	27.49
Germany .de	24.61
United Kingdon .uk	21.74
Russian Federation .ru	11.56
Gabon .ga	9.69
Central African Republic .cf	7.97
Mali .ml	7.95
Netherlands .nl	7.46
Brazil .br	7.19

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Release date

July 2023

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Worldwide

Survey time period

July 2023

Supplementary notes

A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is a top-level domain referring to a country, a sovereign state, or a territory which is given a country code. All two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs, and all ccTLD identifiers consist of two letters.
.tk is the ccTLD for Tokelau, a territory of New Zealand that has a population of approximately 1,400. The tremendous popularity of .tk is due to the fact that there are no residency requirements to register a .tk domain name, and .tk domain names are offered for free (for the first year) with minimal restrictions.

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