US, Asia, Europe Ceding Web Dominance

An anonymous reader writes "A new study shows that presence of the US, Asia, and Western European countries on the web is strongly declining. Newly internet-empowered countries are booming; many geographical regions are showing exponential growth, including Eastern Europe and South America. Chris Harrison explains: 'Countries that have never been able to place a website in the top 500 are now pushing dozens of established websites out of this prestigious list. This trend is both recent (within the last two years) and accelerating. Interestingly, Asia is seeing it's presence eroded the fastest, especially China.'"

Want to know why?

[RealEstateGuy]

All the good .com names are taken and used for pay per click domain parking!

In other news!

[Anonymous Coward]

Developing world developing.

Re:Africa?

[Anonymous Coward]

I am an African prince. If you help get my website out of this country onto the top 500 list I will share millions of US dollars with you.

"Ceding"?

[Goaway]

They're going, oh well, we're not gonna be doing this anyway, you can take over the internet for us?

Re:Africa?

[marafa]

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