A new survey in Australia found that a majority of small businesses have little or no web presence and no registered domain name.
Out of almost 1700 small businesses surveyed by accounting software firm MYOB, only 41% say they have a website. Even fewer businesses (29%) actually use their websites for e-commerce.
A slightly higher proportion of businesses have registered a domain name, but they are still the minority with 55% saying they have yet to do so.
I love stories like this that show how far the internet has to grow and continued demand for domain names.
Thanks for the info – good news but many of this small businesses want to buy Great domain names for next to nothing as they do not realise the Value of domain names in terms of money making for their business and expanding their business (finding the RIGHT domain name – which is IMPORTANT).
You are a CHAMPION with this website – keep up the GREAT work – I only go to 5 domain name related forums / website and yours is one of them.
Mike,
This is the case in Bahamas as well, very few businesses use web sites for e-commerce. Until about 3-4 years ago the Prime Minister’s office used hotmail for their email !
Very interesting, I just returned from London and was pleasantly surprised that most companies I saw had web presence. I would approximate 50 percent of what I saw utilized a .co.uk; rest .com….several radio jingles even ended with the company’s domain name!
Not to say that they were “great generics” Most just the company’s name….which is better than nothing at all.
-Thanks for all that you do Mike-
I check the small business ads in a number of newspapers here in Texas and the majority do not have a domain name or web presence. I still encounter a few people that are not aware of what a domain name is and how e-commerce works. There is still a market.