Importance of the Spanish language in the domain world skyrockets

[mandy]

This past year, Sedo has seen the importance of the Spanish language in the domain world simply skyrocket. With 420 million Spanish-speakers worldwide, only a measly 80 million of these are online, making just 18% of Spanish-speakers on the web. In comparison to other language groups, Spanish is in third place following English and Chinese.

Currently, one in ten Internet users are Spanish-speaking, however this figure is increasing by leaps and bounds. The number of Spanish-speaking Internet users has grown 231.1% in the last six years (2000-2006). This growth rate surpasses that of English-speaking Internet users at 135.2% over the same time period. Naturally, this astounding increase also means massive growth of Spanish domain traffic...

full article: http://dnjournal.com/articles/cctld/spanishmarket.htm

[BellisimaJ.]

Let's see........would that be Sicilian, Catalan(sp?) or some other version? :twistedevil: