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

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

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

> 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 

By "european" do you mean Europe in the wider sense (which includes 
all of Eastern Europe and much of the old Soviet Union) or the European 
Union?

Two more minor points: "ownership" is in my opinion a dubious notion
in this context, and in any case the address in the whois database 
for a domain has no definite relationship with the domain name.  So if
you have a current and authoritative copy of the database and if these
numbers are an accuarate reflection of that database, the numbers
are very helpful, but we must remember that they remain a bit fuzzy.

> 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)
...
> CH	8,918		0.6%	(Switzerland)
...
> (others	103,066		6.4%)
...
> I hope this answers all your queries about domain ownership
> in .com. 

No, only an authoritative copy of the database could do that.  ;-)

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