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

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

At 2:44 pm +0000 11/12/97, Jim Dixon wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Mark Henderson-Thynne wrote:
>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?

My definition of europe in relation to my figures included all of the 
eurpoean landmass as far east as, but not including the former USSR
republics as well as UK, Ireland and Iceland.

>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 country data is based upon the data stored for "Organisation using
domain name" section 3 of the InterNIC database, it in no way relates
to admin tech contacts etc, just the organisation who have entered into a 
contract with the InterNIC regarding the domain name.

I have produced accurate figures based upon a true copy of the available
data. Do you still argue that 97% of .coms are owned by Americans?.

Mark......


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