"97% or so of .COM registrants are Americans." WRONG!

[Mark Henderson-Thynne <mark@netnames.co.uk>]

Hi Larry,

Someone recently mentioned on a newsgroup that 97% of .coms are
American owned, I set out to prove them wrong with data from
our search engine and came up with some interesting results I thought
you might like to see.

Most interesting is that fact that as of this week, for the first time
ever, the majority of domains are non-US owned.

As of: 16.14 GMT Weds 10 Dec 1997 excluding names on hold and
reserved (as opposed to delegated) domains:

Total Domain Names:		2,306,472

Currently growing at:	7,980 a day (67% of these domains
			are ISO country code, 43% are InterNIC)

.com			1,457,576
.net			102,773
.org			106,234
			========
InterNIC Total		1,666,550	(72%)

(out of these approx 69.4% are registered to US addresses)

.uk			96,024
.de			94,193
.se			41,422
.dk			40,389
.au			38,069
.nl			25,666
.jp			25,459
.br			24,751
.ch			22,544
.it			19,153
.ar			16,235
.nz			16,182
.no			11,435
other ISO			168,400
			======
ISO Total			639,922		(28%)

(excludes approx 10 ISO domains where accurate results unobtainable: approx 
4000 domains)

This means that approx 49.96% of domain names are registered to US companies
and 50.04% are registered to non-US companies. 

The majority of domains are now registered by non-us companies!

All information comes from NetNames NameSearch search engine.

Mark......


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