4 Table 2 Number of Domain Names in Each Category Number Proportion in total domain names CN 20,601,491 48.7% COM 14,345,243 33.9% NET 1,633,071 3.9% ORG 330,457 0.8% 中国 474,115 1.1% BIZ 210,062 0.5% INFO 224,321 0.5% Others 4,456,942 10.5% Total 42,275,702 100.0% Up to December 2016, the number of “.CN” domain names reached 20.61 million, increasing by 25.9% year on year and accounting for 48.7% of all domain names of China; “.COM” domain names were 14.35 million, taking up 33.9%; and “.中国” domain names were 474,000. Table 3 Number of “.CN” Domain Names in Each Category Number Proportion in total “.CN” domain names cn 15,044,749 73.0% com.cn 2,803,714 13.6% adm.cn 1,343,009 6.5% net.cn 938,169 4.6% ac.cn 15,322 0.1% org.cn 402,907 2.0% gov.cn 53,546 0.3% edu.cn 6,937 0.0% mil.cn 75 0.0% Total 20,608,428 100.0% Ⅳ. Websites 5 As of the end of 2016, China had 4.82 million websites , representing a yearly increase of 4 Generic top-level domains (gTLD) are provided by domestic domain name registration units. Previous data is provided by WebHosting.Info, a domain name statistical agency. Note: The number of .cn domain names does not cover .edu.cn. 5 Websites refer to those websites whose domain name registrants are in China. 99 The 39th Statistical Report on Internet Development in China