.be

Belgian registrants share .be with an unrelated constituency: English-speaking builders of domain hacks, for whom the two letters spell a verb and complete a phrase across the dot. DNS Belgium operates the registry, which was delegated in 1988 and holds roughly 1.7 million domains, and has made registry-level security a stated operating priority. Registration is open worldwide with no residency test, though Belgian companies and institutions account for most of the namespace.