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

[Jim Dixon <jdd@matthew.uk1.vbc.net>]

On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Mark Henderson-Thynne wrote:

> >As I said earlier it is a waste of time to talk about the motives of the
> >IAHC in placing CORE in Geneva.  It is much more meaningful to talk about
> >the practical effect: 97% or so of .COM registrants are Americans.   

Mark, are you disputing this figure?

> InterNIC Total		1,666,550	(72%)
> 
> (out of these approx 69.4% are registered to US addresses)

Some time ago I said on this list (quoting someone at the European
Commission) that 17% of registrations in .com were in Europe.  Tony
Rutkowski disagreed, saying that US registrations were something
like 97%.  We dumped a random sample of 1000 domains from the .com
zone file and found that Tony's figures were more or less correct.
That is, nearly all .COM registrations are in the US and Canada.

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