The Internet today is undeniably global, but it began in the United States and its foundations were laid in English. All domain names for over 30 years have been made exclusively out of the English alphabet, hyphens, and numbers. Every domain! Convenient for native English speakers, but that's less than 10% of the world's population. The language barrier has been one of the few factors limiting growth of the Internet. As of March 31, 2011, there are more than 2 BILLION people with Internet access: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm How many unique visitors would you guess visit Google.com on a monthly basis? In June of 2011, the figure given by compete.com is: 150,132,156.