Are you wondering the growth of internet usage, email ids, web sites, onine videos etc? Here are some rich insights backed with data. Asia is the leading market for all of the above and in terms of growth as well as 'first time' users.
Among the the continents, Asia has 922 million Internet users, Europe has 476 million, and North America is in third place with 271 million. Leading the table in individual countries, China is on top with 485 million people using the Internet ( above 36 percent of its total population).
Royal Pingdom has reported that the number of Internet users has increased from 360 million at the end of 2000 to now - about 30 percent of the world's population.
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| Courtesy - Pingdom |
Domain names
95.5 million – Number
of .com domain names at the end of 2011.
13.8 million – Number
of .net domain names at the end of 2011.
9.3 million – Number
of .org domains names at the end of 2011.
7.6 million – Number
of .info domain names at the end of 2011.
2.1 million – Number
of .biz domain names at the end of 2011.
220 million – Number
of registered domain names (Q3, 2011).
86.9 million – Number
of country code top-level domains (.CN, .UK, .DE, etc.) (Q3, 2011).
324 – Number of
top-level domains.
28% – Market share
for BIND, the number one DNS server type.
$2.6 million – The
price for social.com, the most expensive domain name sold in 2011.
Internet users
2.1 billion –
Internet users worldwide.
922.2 million –
Internet users in Asia.
476.2 million –
Internet users in Europe.
271.1 million –
Internet users in North America.
215.9 million –
Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.
118.6 million –
Internet users in Africa.
68.6 million –
Internet users in the Middle East.
21.3 million –
Internet users in Oceania / Australia.
45% – Share of
Internet users under the age of 25.
485 million – Number
of Internet users in China,
more than any other country in the world.
36.3% – Internet
penetration in China.
591 million – Number
of fixed (wired) broadband subscriptions worldwide.
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