Nearly a million new .nl domain names registered in 2020

Last year saw the registration of 995,000 new .nl domain names. That’s 20 per cent up on 2019, when 827,000 new .nls were created. Thanks to the registration surge, the total number of .nl domain names stood at 6.1 million on 1 January 2021, according to analysis by SIDN, the company behind .nl. Use of internet security standards also rose significantly in 2020.

.nl is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Netherlands.

Reflecting on an extraordinary and dynamic twelve months, SIDN’s CEO Roelof Meijer commented, “It’s an understatement to say that, in many ways, 2020 was unlike any year we’ve known. The lockdowns fuelled above-average growth of the .nl domain, while the hyper-digitisation of society made cybersecurity more vital than ever. Against that landscape, it’s pleasing to see that use of the various internet standards is growing, because broadly speaking that’s good for internet security. Rapid detection of malicious websites has a positive influence on security as well.”