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71% or so of .COM registrants are Americans: Right!

Hi,

As requested:

Excluding .net and .org from the figures bring the figure of US ownership
of .com up to 71.6%, with 29.4% being non-US owned (including 23.1% 
being european owned). Figues for all countries with more than 0.1% of 
the total are as follows:

1,596,945 .com domain names  (1,457,576 active, 139,369 on hold)

US	1,144,605   	71.6%	(United States)
CA	98,337		6.1%	(Canada)
UK/GB	42,920		2.7%	(United Kingdom)
DE	31,748		2.0%	(Germany)
FR	21,992		1.4%	(France)
SE	16,922		1.1%	(Sweden)
ES	13,115		0.8%	(Spain)
IT	12,435		0.8%	(Italy)
JP	12,217		0.8%	(Japan)
NL	12,117		0.8%	(Netherlands)
CH	8,918		0.6%	(Switzerland)
HK	8,888		0.6%	(Hong Kong)
AU	7,348		0.5%	(Australia)
DK	7,276		0.5%	(Denmark)
AE	6,417		0.4%	(United Arab Emirates)
CN	6,146		0.4%	(China)
IN	4,895		0.3%	(India)
KR	4,742		0.3%	(South Korea)
BR	4,462		0.3%	(Brazil)
BE	3,557		0.2%	(Belgium)
AT	3,010		0.2%	(Austria)
TR	2,955		0.2%	(Turkey)
NO	2,637		0.2%	(Norway)
SG	2,174		0.1%	(Singapore)
IL	2,144		0.1%	(Israel)
AR	2,130		0.1%	(Argentina)
FI	2,041		0.1%	(Finland)
TW	1,876		0.1%	(Taiwan)
TH	1,665		0.1%	(Thailand)
ZA	1,649		0.1%	(South Africa)
ID	1,642		0.1%	(Indonesia)

(others	103,066		6.4%)

total includes:

Europe	187,425		23.1%


I hope this answers all your queries about domain ownership
in .com. 

More detailed domain ownership information will be up on a 
web page later today.

Mark......

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