Who Dominates Domains

In case you haven’t counted them all lately, slightly more than half of all Internet domains are commercial. According to SecuritySpace.com’s September 1st Survey:

5,766,929 domains are .com (50.1% of all registered Internet domains).

825,832 domains are .net (7.2%)

640,109 domains are .org (5.6%)

94,075 domains are .edu (0.8%)

The Germans handily beat the English when the subject is registered domains: 769,553 .de domains versus 377,745 .uk domains or 6.7% vs 3.3%. Even factoring Germany’s larger population of people (82.3 million versus 60 million), Deutschland dominates Europe. The Poles come in third, closely followed by the Russians, Japanese, and Dutch (each of those countries with between 229,000 and 226,000 domains).

If you think that an average of one domain for every 71 Dutch means the Netherlands has a large number of domains per capital, consider the popularity of domains registered on Third World islands that have lax laws governing business and low or no taxes:

The number of domains registered on the Cocos Islands (43,337) or on the island republic of Niue (42,834) exceed the numbers of domains registered in Sweden or Norway.

The number registered in the Christmas Islands (30,234) is more than those registered in Israel and Spain combined or Ireland, Hong Kong, Singapore, and India combined.

Those three Pacific Ocean islands — known online as .cc, .nu, and .cx — have a combined population of 3,208 people, or an average of 36 domains per person. Christmas Island (pop. 433) has the highest per capita average, 69. However, Niue offers the benefit of free WiFi access throughout its 260 square kilometers of land (equal to about 1.5 times the size of Washington, DC).

What We Do

Since 1996, the media business consulting firm of Digital Deliverance has provided publishers and broadcasters on four continents with strategic reviews and advice about how to profitably adapt to the epochal changes that computer-mediated technologies have wrought on the media environment and their industries.

Over the years, the firm’s clients have include The New York Times, News Corporation, The Irish Times of Dublin, Dagbladet of Oslo, The Mail & Guardian of Johannesburg, Advance Publications, Critical Mention, MediaNews Group, New Century Network, the Media Development Investment Fund, the National Cancer Institutes, and scores of other media firms that need to adapt to computer-mediated technologies and the rise of Individuated Media.

The managing partner of Digital Deliverance is Vin Crosbie, Adjunct Professor of postgraduate New Media Management at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication, in upstate New York. From 2007 through 2020, he wrote and was the sole instructor of the school’s New Media Business course, a course required for students in the New Media Management master’s degree curriculuum, an elective course for Ph.D. students, and a permission-only course for selected undergraduates and graduate students.

Digital Deliverance is incorporated as a limited liability company in the U.S. state of Connecticut, where it is based in the city of Norwich, Connecticut.