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63 million ccTLD
registrations now in place, the growth in country code
extensions surpassed the overall growth rate, jumping 33%
over the same quarter in 2007 and 9% over the
previous quarter. Verisign said "The ccTLD growth was driven by a few ccTLDs that experienced remarkable double
digit growth quarter over quarter, including .pl
(Poland), .cn (China), .es (Spain), .ru (Russian
Federation) and .fr (France)."
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Verisign also singled
out India as another example of exploding
growth outside the U.S. The country has 41
million Internet users (ranking 8th in the
world), yet that number represents just 4%
of India's population, leaving enormous room for
further expansion. At the end of the fi rst quarter of 2008, there were
1.2 million domain name registrations in India across all
TLDs, a 46% jump from one year ago and 12%
higher than the previous quarter. Of these registrations, approximately
685,000 are .com and .net domains and
410,000 are .in domains,
representing India's country code.
(Posted
June
16, 2008) |
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