The new, ultra-restrictive registrations rules recently introduced by the Chinese authorities seem to be having quite an impact on .CN registrations.

According to Chinese registry CNNIC's latest figures, .CN has gone from around 13.5 million names last December to 9,353,120 names at the end of February.

This steep drop in volume sees Germany's .DE regain its status as the world's best-selling country code domain, with around 13.5 million names registered.