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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 09:10:35 -0800
From: Matthew Zook
Hello All:
I wanted to pass on some data on the geography of the Internet. Based on bi-annual surveys of the registration address of domain names, i.e yahoo.com or theglobe.com, I've been tracking how the Internet and E-commerce has developed. Although domain registration is dispersing, the US remains the primary center and urban areas around the world contain most of the Internet domain names. I've put some of this data (at the global and US state level) on my webpage. See http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~zook/domain_names/ for more details on the methodology of this survey, some of the data and my analysis of it so far.
Any comments/critiques are welcome.
Matthew Zook
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OVERVIEW As of January 2000 there were 10,008,475 com, org, net and edu domains registered worldwide. There are another 3,344,305 country code TLDs (.uk or .de) domains registered as well. That's about 2.2 Intenet domains per 1000 people worldwide. In the US, the figure is 25.2 domains per 1000 people.
CONCENTRATIONS OF DOMAIN NAMES Combined (com, org, net, edu and country code TLDs) there are 13.35 million domains. They are distributed as follows... The US has 50.0 percent California has 11.5 percent Los Angeles (CMSA) has 5.6 percent San Francisco (CMSA) has 3.9 percent New York State has 4.3 percent New York (CMSA includes NJ and CT) has 5.9 percent Germany has 8.6 percent The UK has 8.5 percent
Limiting it to just com, org, net and edu domains you have the following distribution
The US has 66.7 percent California has 15.3 percent Los Angeles (CMSA) has 7.5 percent San Francisco (CMSA) has 5.2 percent New York State has 5.8 percent New York (CMSA includes NJ and CT) has 7.9 percent Germany has 2.5 percent The UK has 3.8 percent
The top five metropolitan concentrations of domain names New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London and Washington DC contain 17.5 percent of all domain names.
US REGIONS WITH THE MOST DOMAINS PER 1000 FIRMS San Francisco, CA CMSA 1,719 Provo, UT 1,648 Los Angeles, CA CMSA 1,246 San Diego, CA 1,226 Las Vegas, NV 1,195
ANALYSIS OF DOMAIN GEOGRAPHY
US http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~zook/pubs/Web_of_Production-Zook.pdf
GLOBALLY http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~zook/pubs/Global_Internet_Geography-Zook.pdf ```