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China's .cn Now the Second Most Popular TLD

Posted by Soulskill on from the more-the-merrier dept.

darthcamaro writes "In case you needed further proof of China's breakneck pace of growth on the web, InternetNews is reporting on data from Verisign that the .cn Top Level Domain (TLD) has now become the second biggest TLD worldwide, surpassing Germany's .de and second only to .com. The number of .cn sites grew by 76 percent in 2008, which is significantly more growth than .com and .net, which only grew by 16 percent combined. A graph in the Verisign report (PDF) shows how quickly China's internet presence has grown in the past two years."

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  1. Quite insulting to the .nl by Teun · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Once upon a time the Dutch had a unique connection to the -then- internet, we were the first outside of the USofA.

    This was at a time the USSR and China were still very People-minded and refused to even think of such connections.

    Maybe the subject of today has something to do with the size of the population ?

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