Charting the number of African domains by country
July 27, 2010 » StatisticsOne Comment
WebHosting.Info’s Country-wise Total Domains, aggregates weekly data from all ICANN accredited registrars. Below it is edited for African nations. The first column shows the nation’s world-wide rank, “Total Domains” are the number of ccTLD’s for a given nation, Gain/Loss/Net are based on weekly changes in the number of registered domains. According to the current data:
- The number of registered domains substantially drops off after the top 5 nations.
- Zimbabwe is witnessing greater than 10% domain registration growth on a weekly basis.
- Rwanda only ranks 195th globally and 37th in Africa.
- Somalia is not in the bottom 10 African nations (supposedly 59 domains are registered in Somalia).
| Rank | Country | Total Domains | Gain | Loss | Net |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | South Africa | 84,144 | 533 | 438 | 95 |
| 53 | Egypt | 43,604 | 808 | 653 | 155 |
| 71 | Morocco | 18,266 | 117 | 144 | -27 |
| 74 | Nigeria | 17,097 | 362 | 286 | 76 |
| 87 | Kenya | 7,662 | 87 | 74 | 13 |
| 88 | Tunisia | 7,440 | 32 | 42 | -10 |
| 101 | Ghana | 5,462 | 121 | 96 | 25 |
| 112 | Algeria | 3,635 | 51 | 30 | 21 |
| 116 | Namibia | 2,465 | 14 | 15 | -1 |
| 123 | Mauritius | 2,286 | 3 | 27 | -24 |
| 126 | Uganda | 2,050 | 17 | 46 | -29 |
| 128 | Zimbabwe | 2,033 | 227 | 19 | 208 |
| 131 | Tanzania | 1,889 | 30 | 24 | 6 |
| 135 | Ethiopia | 1,716 | 4 | 7 | -3 |
| 136 | Libya | 1,697 | 27 | 17 | 10 |
| 141 | Benin | 1,596 | 14 | 17 | -3 |
| 142 | Niger | 1,384 | 9 | 13 | -4 |
| 144 | Cameroon | 1,063 | 13 | 27 | -14 |
| 152 | Malawi | 780 | 1 | 3 | -2 |
| 153 | Angola | 740 | 5 | 14 | -9 |
| 155 | Sudan | 717 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| 159 | Sao Tome and Principe | 687 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 162 | Zambia | 668 | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| 163 | Gabon | 654 | 7 | 1 | 6 |
| 165 | Seychelles | 615 | 4 | 6 | -2 |
| 169 | Senegal | 553 | 4 | 9 | -5 |
| 170 | Mauritania | 551 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 173 | Chad | 394 | 1 | 5 | -4 |
| 175 | Mali | 341 | 1 | 5 | -4 |
| 177 | Cote D'Ivoire | 319 | 3 | 6 | -3 |
| 180 | Reunion | 303 | 3 | 4 | -1 |
| 184 | Swaziland | 264 | 0 | 2 | -2 |
| 186 | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | 260 | 1 | 2 | -1 |
| 191 | Sierra Leone | 247 | 1 | 2 | -1 |
| 192 | Madagascar | 241 | 1 | 3 | -2 |
| 194 | Ascension Island | 231 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 195 | Rwanda | 228 | 2 | 3 | -1 |
| 196 | Liberia | 226 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 200 | Cape Verde | 193 | 0 | 2 | -2 |
| 206 | Mozambique | 147 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 207 | Saint Helena | 145 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 210 | Botswana | 132 | 0 | 1 | -1 |
| 213 | Burundi | 106 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 214 | Togo | 87 | 1 | 2 | -1 |
| 217 | Western Sahara | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 220 | Gambia,The | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 223 | Somalia | 59 | 0 | 3 | -3 |
| 225 | Burkina Faso | 54 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 226 | Equatorial Guinea | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 230 | Djibouti | 31 | 0 | 1 | -1 |
| 232 | Congo | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 235 | Eritrea | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 236 | Guinea-Bissau | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 239 | Lesotho | 7 | 0 | 1 | -1 |
| 240 | Mayotte | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 244 | Comoros | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 245 | Central African Republic | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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