Germany's .de: 117.7 Million Hostnames, One Cooperative, and How a Non-Profit Built the World's Largest Country-Code TLD
We analyzed 3.18 billion observed hostnames across 1,511 TLDs and found .de ranks 3rd globally with 117.7 million hostnames — the largest country-code TLD on Earth, larger than .org and every other ccTLD. 75.2% of those names still return a live A record, among the highest liveness of any major TLD. How a Frankfurt cooperative charging EUR 2.20 per domain outbuilt every other nation's namespace. Refreshed June 2026 with first-party resolution data.