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The United States overtakes other nations in the count of .com addresses with nearly 63 million active .com domain names in 2009. The United States has encountered rapid growth in enrolled .com domain names in the past decade. In between 1999 and 2007, the number of enrolled .com domain names in the United States was raised by 1,300 percent. In 1999, there were approximately the same number of firms in the United States as .com domain names, but by 2007 that number had increased to 9 .com domain names for every single enterprise. Clearly some part of .com domain names are for personal blogs or others are not-for-profit sites, the rate at which the number of .com domain names has grown clearly shows that they are very essential for most of the 21st century businesses.

The geographic organization of the dot-com economy across the United States is quite different. Forty-four percent of .com domain names in the United States are enrolled to addresses in five states, California, New York, Florida, Texas, and Illinois, which collectively comprises of less than one-third of the U.S. Population. But, Nevada, Virginia, Arizona, Utah, and Washington direct the nation in the number of .com domain names as a part of overall enterprises. The number of domain names per firm differs considerably by state across the country. Nevada consists of 6.5 times as many domain names per firm as that of lowest ranking state, South Dakota.

There is logically strong relationship between states consisting of number of domain names per firm and states with high comprehensive broadband deployment. Between 2004 and 2007 the average number of domain names in states nearly became twice from 242,000 to 400,334, indicating that all states are playing major role in the dot-com economy.