US still dominates the internet

Two-thirds of all domain names are hosted in the United States, with just 3 per cent hosted in the UK, according to a new report. Germany comes in second, but has twelve times less registered domains than the US. Canada is in third place, with the UK in fourth place, with just 3 per cent of the world’s 77 million registered domains. The authors of the report, Ipwalk, said the dominance could be due to the fact that the US’s web hosting industry is both market leading and very competitive on price, with the result that a large number of foreign companies and people have chosen to register domains there. The breakdown: United States, 67.23 per cent (52,277,677) Germany, 5.71 per cent (4,442,041) Canada, 3.60 per cent (2,802,411) United Kingdom, 3.37 per cent (2,617,679) China, 3.22 per cent (2,503,430) The rest combined, 16.86 per cent (13,111,810) http://www.ipwalk.com

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