Sedo Article - The Internet and the Spanish Revolution

[thefabfive]

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 defeats 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. For example, trabajo.com (work.com) received 18,000 visits in October 2004, while the same domain received 27,000 visitors just last month.

Now why oh why would this not translate directly to IDNs? And why hasn't Sedo realized this same trend should be true of IDN?

[alphamale]

Originally Posted by thefabfive

Now why oh why would this not translate directly to IDNs? And why hasn't Sedo realized this same trend should be true of IDN?

Fab, why don't you post this same article over on IDNF and ask the SEDO diplomat wASSbi to explain wtf is up with SEDO and IDN ?

[thefabfive]

Done.

[yanni]

Didn't Sedo have an article on IDNs a while back, or am I not remembering correctly?

[boca]

I think the article was too long for the editors. They must have cut the final paragraph where the author drew the obvious conclusion...

[alphamale]

Originally Posted by yanni

Didn't Sedo have an article on IDNs a while back, or am I not remembering correctly?

http://www.sedo.co.uk/links/showhtml...050&language=e from 2004

thats all I could find searching their news site.