Interesting Fact - The Internet
American-based organisations accounted for nearly half of all applications for new net address endings, according to
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the organisation in charge of the expansion.
(They received 884 requests for new suffixes from the US, out of a total of 1,930. The breakdown of requests is as follows:-
North America: 911 applications
Europe: 675 applications
Asia-Pacific: 303 applications
Latin American and the Caribbean: 24 applications
Africa: 17 applications
116 of the applications were for non-Latin alphabets.)
(They received 884 requests for new suffixes from the US, out of a total of 1,930. The breakdown of requests is as follows:-
North America: 911 applications
Europe: 675 applications
Asia-Pacific: 303 applications
Latin American and the Caribbean: 24 applications
Africa: 17 applications
116 of the applications were for non-Latin alphabets.)