A survey by HostGator revealed that Brazil has reached a new milestone in 2022. By exceeding 5 million registered domain names. This note is based on data published on Registro.br, an organization that manages the creation of new website addresses in our country.
An important fact is that in the first half of this December, the platform flagged exactly 5,005,843 registered website addresses, so the expectation is that this number will exceed 5,006,000 by the end of the year.
“These numbers show that more and more people are interested in starting an online project, whether it’s blogging or e-commerce. Ricardo Melo, Vice President of Marketing for HostGator Brasil, is delighted to be a part of this ecosystem that provides practical and secure options for everyone to make this dream come true.” said.
Most registered domains in 2022
Looking at the most registered domain categories, com.br extensions are the most popular, making up 4,642,874 of the existing websites. In the second position we have net.br which corresponds to 77,437 records.
Check out the ten most popular categories below:
- com.br – 4,642,874 records (92.75%)
- net.br – 77,437 records (1.55%)
- app.br – 14,344 records (0.29%)
- art.br – 10,525 records (0.21%)
- eco.br – 8,891 records (0.18%)
- tec.br – 7,269 records (0.15%)
- dev.br – 6,199 records (0.12%)
- ong.br – 2,563 records (0.05%)
- log.br – 2,313 records (0.05%)
- seg.br – 2,271 records (0.05%)
- emp.br – 908 records (0.02%)
Overall, these numbers represent 95.40% of all registered domain names. This amount is part of the “generic” category in Registro.br
The remaining 4.60% is divided as follows:
- legal entities – 110,491 records (2.21%)
- liberal professionals – 90,074 enrollments (1.80%)
- cities – 16,551 records (0.33%)
- individuals – 8,510 records (0.17%)
- universities – 4,623 enrollments (0.09%)
Source: Tec Mundo
