Some pretty interesting numbers coming out of the ICANN meeting’s Opening Session in Beijing today.
China has 564 Million Internet users, which represents over 42% of their population and almost double the population of the US.
China added 40 million new Internet Users in just the last year.
China has 7 of the Top 30″Internet Companies”
China E-Commerce has reached $7 Billion.
In terms of domain names, China’s ccTLD, .Cn has 7.5 Million registered domains, making it number seven in the world in terms of ccTLD’s
24 Chinese companies applied for 40 new gTLD.
ICANN announced today that the Beijing meeting will have the largest attendance ever for ICANN Meeting, 1900 from outside of China, 700 from inside China.
Hello Mhb,
.COM holders Rejoice ?
They may migrate towards the new gTlds who knows they may desert the .COM Brand for an unknown? .Whatever.
The Chinese are clever, Apple I-Phone , 30 year accepted route to profit .COMs take your pick?
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
There a more reason why I am getting lots of inquires on my 4L domains that most of you sold cheap 2 yrs ago.
Let’s check how many of theirs companies use .com vs .cn: baidu, qq, taobao, 163, weibo, tmall, sohu, hao123 (8 x .com) vs sina, google (.com.cn & .com.hk).