Friday, June 27, 2008

Internet in China: From Little Red Book to Big Red Top Level Domain


Over at Read Write Web they reported that the .cn Internet suffix has now reach number three in popularity, surpassing .net. .com is still king, but with 221 Million Chinese Internet users, can the number two ranking be far off?

The news, which was reported to the AP by Verisign, show how the face of the web is changing dramatically. Global-reach.biz shows the following stats for the language break down of Internet pages:


It's old data so that Chinese wedge must be far bigger by now.

What do you suppose Chairman Mao would think about 221 Million people having not entirely censored access to web content?

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