The Next Big Internet Market?

[sashas]

I know that .cn and .in have taken off

.mobi is looking good too

.info seems to be growing stronger also

but what would you say is the next big TLD?

I'm gonna put Europe and North America out of the picture. They've already happened.
Africa will take 25 years to even become 10% of North America.

So that leaves us pretty much with Asia and South America

India, China and Japan are three obvious markets. But other than this, and seeing the population and Internet usage trends, Phillpines, Pakistan and Malaysia look good (All have approx. 14 million users. Not a lot, but still decent - and bound to go up only)

I'm actually surprised to see the lack of interest in South American domains. Brazil has as many internet users as India, and Argentina has 14 million+ users too. Even though the the penetration of english is pretty low in both the countries, Spanish and Portugese are pretty common.

I haven't seen much Australian names either, even though Australia has roughly the same number of internet users as Philipines (14mil) and an english speaking population coupled with 70% internet penetration.


So what would you pick as next big internet market? Not now, but perhaps 5 years from now (so that I have a small fortune by the time I graduate!).

 

[DnEbook]

When the internet conquers TV, that will be big for domaining, I can see generic domains becoming web channels just like TV but interactive.

sounds good , i have interactive3dtv.com ....... you never know ??