Out of the top 20 web sites in China, currently

[IT_Highway]

According to the alexa.com traffic rankings; Out of the top 20 web sites in China, currently 20% of those domains contain at least 1 numeric in their top level domain ...

http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/CN

 

[Sterling]

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[victornumber]

wow....

 

[IT_Highway]

According to the alexa.com traffic rankings; Out of the top 20 web sites in China, currently 20% of those domains contain at least 1 numeric in their top level domain ...

http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/CN

Current listing of the current top 100 domains in China for traffic (according to Alexa.com) that contain one or more numeric's in the TLD;

#6 - 163.com
#11 - kaixin001.com
#13 - ku6.com
#22 - 56.com
#29 - it168.com
#33 - 126.com
#50 - 51.com
#52 - 6.cn
#58 - kaixin001.com/~repaste
#61 - 51.la
#63 - 39.net
#71 - 4399.com
#73 - 58.com
#87 - 51job.com
#94 - 21cn.com
#95 - 17173.com

 

[Anthony Ng]

The Chinese are very creative when it comes to numbers. For example, they use 3 for "delete", and 56 (five six, not fifty six) for "boring" or "lame".

Historically, a coup attempt to kill Mao was codenamed "Project 571", the numbers assimilate the pronunciation of armed (5) uprising (71).

 

[IT_Highway]

Comparing with the United States; only 1 domain name in the top 100 U.S. web sites (according to alexa.com) contains a numeric in it's top level domain; which is tube8.com (a porno site) which currently ranks at #56 out of the top 100...

So the moral of the story is; As evidenced by a comparison of the Top 100 web sites... numerics obviously play a much more important role in Chinese culture than American culture.