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

At 11:25 am +0000 11/12/97, Jim Dixon wrote:
>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?

Yes, I am, we have a complete database of all InterNIC domains. And out
of these 69.4% have the country-code field US. The other 30.6% have
non-US country codes. I hope within the next few days to have an 
accurate analysis breaking InterNIC domains downs on a country
by country basis.

>> 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.

1000 domains out of 1.6 million isnt a very accurate sample. Our search covered 
all 1.6 million domains and our figures are correct.

I would provide the proof as an attachment but the data file is 291mb long ;-)

Mark......

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