Portugal reports lockdown boom continued through the summer
While the coronavirus pandemic is well past its first peak in western Europe, the lingering effects of government restrictions is a gift that continues to give for at least one ccTLD.
Associação DNS.PT today reported that total registrations of .pt names in August (6,843) were 35% higher than during the same period last year, and that July’s number was 17.28% higher than the year-ago month.
The registry added that the trend seems to be continuing into September.
The company said that registrations were mostly driven by “catering and domestic service companies, gyms and social solidarity projects” getting online for the first time due to pandemic restrictions.
Oddly, the new numbers appear to have been presented today at an in-person, though socially distanced, lecture by DNS.PT and government officials.
Portugal joins the million-domain club
Portuguese ccTLD .pt passed one million registrations for the first time earlier this month, DNS.pt said this week.
The millionth name was meckos.pt, registered by a local textile machinery company of that name, the registry said.
The ccTLD ended 2017 with 976,370 names under management and as of today stands at 1,001,552 names, according to statistics published on the DNS.pt web site.
The company says it is currently growing fast, taking 10,693 new registrations in January, up 30% compared to the same month last year.
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