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 -- http://josh.id.au/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- List policy, unsubscribing and archives => http://dotau.org/
