Jon:
From postel@EDU.ISI Sun Nov 6 01:39:26 1994 Date: Sat, 5 Nov 1994 17:38:39 -0800 From: postel@EDU.ISI (Jon Postel) To: amr@org.isoc, pwj@uk.ac.rutherford.informatics Subject: Re: Press Release on Host Counts Cc: isoc-trustees@org.isoc, isoc-advisory-council@org.isoc, circ@uk.ac.ukerna, ripe-list@net.ripe, kalin@nl.rare Sender: postel@EDU.ISI Content-Length: 706
Phil:
I've only got partial data to work with, but the growth rate of the US domain is greater than that of the UK domain, even with most of the registrations going into the COM and other domains instead.
Date UK %change US %change
Oct 92 48213 ? Jan 93 58431 21.19 692
Jul 93 89788 53.67 1340 93.64
Jan 94 113930 26.89 6541 388.13
Jul 94 155706 36.67 16556 153.11 Oct 94 194350 24.82 24861 50.16
In Oct 94, the UK domain is number 3 and the US domain is number 19.
I am very happy with rapid rise in the size of the .us domain.
By the way, when is the "uk" going to convert to a legitimate country code (such as gb)?
--jon.
I have hopes that the United Kingdom registration with ISO 3166 will change the two-character code from 'gb' to 'uk'. Best wishes, Phil (Manager, UKERNA Network Services Group) (p.jones@ukerna.ac.uk) (not yet phil@jones.com :-) (DDI: +44-1235-446618, S-B: +44-1235-445724, Fax: +44-1235-446251) (post: UKERNA, Atlas Centre, Chilton, Didcot, OXON, OX11 0QS, UK)