.BE is the ccTLD (Country Code Top Level Domain) for Belgium.
The TLD was introduced 1988 and was initially administered by Pierre Verbaeten of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
In 2000 the control over it was handed over to DNS Belgium, Registry to this day.
In 2005, it was announced that with some restrictions, domain registration is free until the beginning of 2006; this promotion for .BE was immensely popular, with around 17,000 registrations on the very first day.
Today there are over 1.5 million .BE domain names.