ITIF is marking the 25th anniversary of the very first .com with a comprehensive report, "The Internet Economy 25 Years After .Com: Transforming Life and Commerce." (pdf available for download) You can celebrate the 25th anniversary of dotcom on the very aptly named website – www.25yearsof.com
Some of the things that you will find in this report
- Of the roughly 250 million websites about 80 million are .coms. Even after the collapse of the .dom bubble, the number of domain names grows by an average of 668,000 a month.
- The .coms alone account for some $400 million in economic benefits to businesses and consumers and that figure will likely double in the next ten years.
- Despite high-profile failures in the dot-com bubble burst, typical survival rates for these new businesses were actually higher than normal and spectacular success stories have followed.
- Only about 25 percent of the world’s 6.7 billion participate in the dot-com economy but is changing – 73 million Chinese became Internet users in 2007 alone.
In order to sustain the progress that has been made in empowering consumers, spurring innovations and boosting productivity, the report urges:
- Adoption of policies that allow for the deployment of technologies, like wired and wireless broadband, mobile payments platforms, health IT, and other Internet platforms.
- Removal of regulatory and legal barriers to the emergence of new e-business models.
- Creation of incentives for companies to invest in Internet-enabled business practices.
- Advancing digital literacy.
[via @25yearsofdotcom ]
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