The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Communications Outlook 2007 is an extensive report which documents the most recent comparable data on communication sector market performance, providing information on policy frameworks on OECD countries.

The report also includes detailed statistics on internet subscribers, internet hosts, web servers, secure servers, Domain Name, national and international internet development, and peering. The report (follow the links) is available in PDF format and is over 5MB in size, comprising over 300 pages. Domain-related highlights include the following:

- From 2000-2006, the 5 countries with the highest annual growth by ccTLD are .be, .ca, .se, .es and .pl.

- The top 5 ccTLD registrations per capita are .dk, .de, .nl, .ch and .be (July 2006).

- .com registrations account for 51% of all domain name registrations, ccTLD registrations for 31%, .net for 7%, .org for 5%, .info for 3%, .eu registrations for 2%, and .biz for 1%.

- For shares of gTLDs in OECD-related Domain Name Registrations, the top 5 countries are USA, Turkey, Canada, Spain and France.

- For domain name registrations per inhabitant including gTLDs, ccTLDs and .eu, the top 5 countries are Denmark (184/1,000 inhabitants), Germany (174/1,000), United States (159/1,000), Netherlands (154/1,000) and United Kingdom (140/1,000).

- Top 5 registrars (2005): GoDaddy (18%), Network Solutions (10%), eNom (8%), Tucows (7%) and Melbourne IT (6%).

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