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2018 was the best year ever for .pt

04-01-2019
2018 was the best year ever for .pt
04-01-2019
The DNS.PT Association, registry of the Portuguese top-level domain, .pt, reached an historical milestone of registered domains in 2018. In total, 107,850 new domains were registered directly in .pt.

The Portuguese top-level domain grows more than the European average: year after year, the number of .pt registrations increases significantly. In fact, .pt is in the top 5 of the European domains.

In 2018, the year in which .pt celebrated 30 years, this evolution was evident from the beginning. In January .pt had 10,693 new registrations. Also noteworthy for the months of March with 10,125 new registrations, October with 9,488, and November, which reached 9,870 new registrations.

The year of 2018 was also marked by the 30 years of .pt, celebrated with the organization of the conference 'The Internet is a strange place' and with the signing of a protocol of collaboration with the Portuguese Communications Foundation. Following this protocol, an interactive structure of the .pt domain is now on display at the Communications Museum in Lisbon.

For more information on the number of registrations in .pt please check the statistics here.