Re: [wg-c] .com vs. ccTLDs in Europe

["Martin B. Schwimmer" <martys@interport.net>]

I am working today on a matter where a French champagne producer's marks
show up in about 40 third party .com domain names.  It's marks have never
been pirated in the .fr domain.  There are other correlations with a TLD's
policies.



At 04:09 PM 10/20/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Looming at similar statistics a few months ago, I came up with the estimate
>that com has 25% of the domain name registrations in the UK, about 10% in
>Germany, and slightly over 50% in France. (France has no one but itself to
>blame for NSI's market share, in my opinion, because until very recently it
>tried to impose an arcane SLD structure on registrants and adopted very
>restrictive policies.) In general, although we lack the statistical data to
>prove it, I suspect that there is a positive correlation between the market
>share of the NSI gTLDs and the restrictiveness of a ccTLD's policies.
>--MM
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>Jonathan Weinberg wrote:
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>>         Prodded by Tony off-line, I tried actually doing some research on
>> the relative dominance of .com and the ccTLDs outside the US.  This is an
>> area in which my lack of technical expertise is painfully obvious, so I'm
>> posting what I think I learned to the list as a reality check.
>> <http://www.nic.fr/Statistiques/auto/Com/> appears to indicate that there
>> were 263,184 .com SLDs in Europe, and 37,403 .com SLDs in France, as of
>> 10/99.  <http://www.nic.fr/Statistiques/auto/Europe/> appears to indicate
>> that there were 886,036 total SLDs in Europe as of 3/99, and
>> <http://www.nic.fr/Statistiques/fr.html> appears to indicate that there
>> were 44,386 domains in .fr as of 8/99.  This seems to me to indicate that
>> .com plays an important role in Europe, but not an overwhelming one.  Can
>> somebody please let me know if I'm understanding these statistics
>> incorrectly?
>>
>> Jon
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>> Jonathan Weinberg
>> weinberg@msen.com
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