Countries that purchase the most of domain names?

Out of curiousity, which are countries would you think purchase the most domain names in term of number of domains? I believe US is most likely ranked at the top position, with UK follwing at 2nd place.

What's your guess?

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I would agree with you. The US definately has the most registrations, and then maybe the UK or Australia (the Australian government sponsered internet research very early in the game, before most countries, as they viewed it as a viable method of increasing communication across their large land mass).



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My guess would go with the U.S. followed by the U.K. as well, but I think we'll see that start to change to Asian countries soon. As the problems with paypal and payment systems get sorted out for Asians, they'll start a buying boom. Or I think anyway.

emm...Asian countries!! I have forgotten that, especially the giant china! I believe china will very soon over take other countries and topping the fastest growing in term of domain
registration.

Thinking of this, would .cn TLD be the next hot trend??

The U.S., U.K. then China or Japan.

I suspect if there's a .cn, it would be good to buy a few. But, they've got to work out pay pal for those countries first, or another option which is solid for money payments.

Actually I bet you India is climbing up the rankings very fast. There are a lot of Indian webmasters and web sites.

India is a good bet too ...India has so many economic and political problems not to mention natural disasters, that I tend to dismiss them, but there's a huge online population from India.

One thing I've noticed with people from there is that they work incredibly hard online for very little money ...much the same way that outsourcing worked with call centers put so much business there.

I have seen the same thing. The interesting thing is these people are bright. A lot of call center business is moving back to the us, both from complaints and from labor organization in India where they were not going to continue to be exploited.

I see the webmasters making a better life form themselves and working hard. The internet is a global marketplace, and it is very cool to see people from all over come together.