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The Catalan language domain, .cat, celebrated its fourth birthday today. When the suffix was launched in 2005, critics argued there was not a sufficient market base for it to succeed. They couldn’t have been more wrong.
As of this writing, there are some 36,000 .cat domains registered and 80 million Catalan pages indexed in Google. The extension is so successful that it is preferred by speakers of the language over .com.
Catalonia is an autonomous region in northern Spain. There are 7.7 million Catalan speakers worldwide, mostly in Spain and southern France.
The success of .cat will likely aid proponents of other regional extensions like .nyc and .bayern.
