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.INFO services a global audience. North America is the top registration market for .INFO domain sales (51 percent) with Europe closely in second place (38 percent). The US is the top country for .INFO registrations (48 percent) followed by Germany (11 percent).
With over 5.2 million domains registered, the .INFO domain is currently the 4th largest generic top-level domain in the world, second only to .com, .net, and .org
.INFO Domain owners continue to use .INFO to share their unique message with a large and increasingly diverse audience. As of March 2009, North America maintains the largest share of .INFO’s registration at 56%, followed closely by Europe at 33%.
There are four factors that bode well for domain name growth in general and .INFO especially:
First, Internet penetration continues to grow worldwide, as a larger percentage of people get online. In the US, 71% of the households have Internet access (US Dept. of Commerce 2007 Census data), and teenagers now spend more time online than on the telephone! This trend will continue. Second, as the audience grows, a greater percentage of businesses and organizations will want their information on line to attract the broadest possible audience in their traditional markets. And, more businesses than ever are trying to tap the global market. Third, with improvements in technology, bandwidth and domain capacity, businesses and organizations will do a wider range of activities on line than ever before and new domain names will help Internet users find and access these new services. And fourth, direct type-in traffic is still important. According to Jupiter Media Metrix, Inc., 23% of Internet users type in URL's to reach sites, making the need for intuitive, short names even greater. And with millions of domains registered to date, .INFO is the largest and fastest growing new TLD to date.
Top registration markets for .INFO include US (55%), Germany (8%) and UK (4%). It is interesting to note that Japan has risen from eighth place in 2009 up to fourth place in 2010.
Top 10 Countries for .INFO
Top registration markets for .INFO include US (53%), Germany (9%), and UK (5%). It is interesting to note that adoption has significantly increased in Japan (2%).
Top 10 Countries for .INFOSource: .INFO Registry March 2009