[AfrICANN-discuss] Per Capita, Netherlands Is the World's ccTLD Leader

[Anne-Rachel Inné]

 Per Capita, Netherlands Is the World's ccTLD
Leader<http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090229_per_capita_netherlands_domain_leader/>By
*John Yunker* <http://www.circleid.com/members/2287/>
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090229_per_capita_netherlands_domain_leader/

The Netherlands, a country with just 16 million people, accounts for more
than 3 million ccTLDs.

That's an impressive ratio of people to domains—one ccTLD per 5.3 people—and
it the highest ratio of any country with more than five million residents.

Germany comes in a close second, with a ratio of roughly one ccTLD per 6.5
people.

Granted, many of the owners of these .nl domains are not Dutch. Rather, they
are multinational companies like FedEx <http://www.fedex.nl/> and
Apple<http://www.apple.nl/>.


But even if you take this into account, the Dutch registry SIDO claims that
the Netherlands still has the highest density of
domains<http://www.sidn.nl/ace.php/c,728,6050,,,,Steady_growth_in_the_number_of_nl_domain_names_in_2008.html>,
roughly 28 .NL domains per 1,000 people—a still impressive ratio.

Why is this I wonder?
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