Poland's .pl: 29.3 Million Hostnames, 2.61 Million Registrations, and the ccTLD Where ISP Reverse-DNS Is the Largest Category
We analyzed 29.3 million .pl hostnames in our June 2026 snapshot against NASK's 2.61 million registered domains to find that Poland's namespace is dominated by ISP reverse-DNS infrastructure to a degree few European ccTLDs match: Orange Polska's three reverse-DNS zones alone account for 16.0 percent of every observable .pl hostname, and twenty-eight operators together generate over ten million entries — roughly a third of the namespace. Alongside the infrastructure layer sit Polish shared-hosting platforms (home.pl, nazwa.pl, kylos.pl) and a frozen ecosystem of mid-2000s Polish-language platforms — pinger.pl, digart.pl, fora.pl, republika.pl — that still resolve in 2026, plus a regional architecture of twenty-three city and voivodeship second-level domains that NASK launched in the 1990s and that, three decades on, account for under 1.5 percent of the namespace. Refreshed June 2026 with first-party DNS-resolution data.