.IE Domain Profile Report 2020

Other ecosystem facts Market share of Ireland’s hosted domains (by top-level domain, November 2020)  .com 32%  .uk 8%  .net 2%  .eu 2%  .org 2%  Others 3% Source: HosterStats Analysis of .ie domain ecosystem How has the Covid-19 pandemic affected new .ie web address keywords? .IE Domain Profile Report 2020 | 5 Number of .ie websites with a security certificate 64% (+13 percentage points YoY) Source: Pandalytics Number of new .ie registrations with a fada 2020 Ú 103 2019 Ú 56 (+84% YoY) Health keywords General health-related keywords, such as “wellness”, “supplement”, “pharmacy”, and “fitness”, increased 92% in new registrations in 2020 v 2019. .ie domains containing the words “health” or “healthy” 2020 498 2019 247 .ie domains containing the words “mental health” or “counselling” 2020 178 2019 87 .ie domains containing the words “doctor” or “nurse” 2020 89 2019 62 Pandemic keywords Pandemic-related keywords, such as “virus”, “sanitiser”, and “vaccine”, increased by 9,600% in new registrations in 2020 v 2019. .ie domains containing the words “Covid”, “coronavirus”, “virus”, or “pandemic” 2020 572 2019 0 .ie domains containing the word “mask” or “facemask” 2020 315 2019 6 .ie domains containing the word “remote” (for example, remote work) 2020 61 2019 5 2020 top new .ie registration keywords 1 Ireland 2 Health 3 Dublin 4 Covid 5 Group 2019 top new .ie registration keywords 1 Ireland 2 Dublin 3 Group 4 Solutions 5 Tech  .ie 51% (+1 percentage point YoY)