[DNS] Australia registers more .au than .com domains

[DNS] Australia registers more .au than .com domains

From: Josh Rowe <josh§email.nu>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:04:38 +1000
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 05:58:30PM -0700, David Goldstein wrote:

> Australia has one of the highest (maybe .ca is higher) registrations of .com domains in the world per capita. What are the reasons for this? I assume there are several, but it could be there are some reasons that have had more of an impact.

Here are statistics based on the top ten countries who register .com domain names:

Country		.COM per capita
-------		---------------
Hong Kong	20.34%
United States	12.94%
Australia	 6.20%
Canada		 6.12%
United Kingdom	 3.74%
Germany		 3.45%
France		 2.00%
Spain		 1.58%
Japan		 0.56%
China		 0.15%

Country		ccTLD per capita
-------		----------------
Germany		13.36%
United Kingdom	 9.90%
Australia	 4.28%
Canada		 2.58%
Hong Kong	 1.93%
France		 1.31%
Spain		 1.27%
Japan		 0.72%
United States	 0.41%
China		 0.14%

These statistics will be in the next version of my paper together with the sources I used.

If anyone else has any further empirical evidence for or against opening up .au then please share it with me.


Josh
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