China vs India Domain wise

[equity78]

China and India have the two largest populations in the world and have both been touted as future IT superpowers. However, a recent survey conducted by the domain-statistics company Ipwalk shows that China is far ahead of India on the Internet.

The last decade there has been a lot of speculation about China as an up-and-coming IT superpower and, although maybe not to the same extent, similar talk about India.

They are both huge countries with an enormous population. India has just over a billion people, and China has passed 1.3 billion. In a survey based on reports created by Ipwalk, the two Asian giants were compared against each other to see how they were doing, Internet wise.

The Ipwalk reports show the number of domains registered to specific countries. With the data for the generic top level domains for both nations measured over a period of nine months, a simple diagram was created to compare the numbers for India and China side by side. The result is striking.


Entire Article http://www.ipwalk.com/general/show_news/id/7

 

[IAmAllanShore]

China = More likely to "toss aside" ICANN and use their own system?

Long run, .in over .cn for me, despite .cn's higher population and GDP/GNP growth rate.

-Allan

 

[equity78]

Good point Allan I was surprised that the report said Domain regs slowed down for India.

 

[VisualArtistFrankBonilla]

India

I think the graph in the report shows exactly why to go with India in the future (as a bet for us domainers)! India hasn't begun to register domains, why China has already gone crazy!
As predicted by many, India's internet will "explode" as far as registrations, in the next 2-3 years. I'm going with India for sure. I currently have over 250 India domains.
Besides, as mentioned above, who knows what China will do with the internet in the future. More specifically, what China would do with domains owned by foreigners!!. In any case, the government could easily issue a ban on many domains they don't like. IMHO

Frank :yell: