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Ipwalk Says USA Still Dominates August 23, 2006 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Internet statistics service provider Ipwalk (ipwalk.com) announced in a report on Monday that two-thirds of all domain names are hosted in the United States. Ipwalk says there are currently more than 77 million generic top-level domain names in the world and 67.23 percent of these are hosted in the U.S., which corresponds to 52,277,677 domain names, making it by far the most dominant country on the Internet. The United States has almost twelve times as many domain names as Germany in second place with 5.71 percent or 4,442,041 domain names. The research firm says a contributing factor to the strong US dominance could be that the country's Web hosting industry is both market leading and very competitive on price, with the result that a large number of foreign companies and persons have chosen the United States for their Internet presence. The top five countries together hold 83.14 percent of all gTLD domain names, with United States at the top, followed by Germany, Canada with 3.60 percent, United Kingdom with 3.37 percent and China with 3.22 percent. Ipwalk says with such a strong and established Web hosting industry, the United States will continue to dominate the Internet for the foreseeable future, though up-and-coming IT superpowers such as China are bound to start catching up as their infrastructure improves.
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October 2009 - Web Hosting's All Star Team
This has been, for us, one of the most interesting, exciting and challenging build-ups to an issue of the magazine yet, Web Hosting's All Star Team. The balloting process was our first experiment with a kind of user participation we're planning to do a lot more with in the months to come. We had thousands of ballots submitted, with hundreds of write-in suggestions and a demonstration of user engagement that has us feeling super positive about the project.
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One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
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