Secure Computing Corp. of San Jose, Calif., surveyed non-U.S. country suffixes, such as .de for Germany and .jp for Japan, and found more than 46 million pages of porn in the top 100 individual country suffixes.
Germany led the pack with 10,030,200 porn domains, followed by United Kingdom at 8,506,800; Australia at 5,655,800; Niue at 2,947,800; Japan at 2,700,800; Netherlands at 1,883,800; Russia at 1,080,600; Poland at 1,049,600; Spain at 852,800; Tonga at 848,800; and Canada at 283,600.
By region, Europe led with 28,430,600 porn domains; the Pacific at 12,352,600; Asia at 3,193,000; Latin America at 1,048,600; Africa at 389,400; Canada at 283,600; Caribbean at 255,000; and the Middle East at 77,800.
While it was expected that most overseas porn would be in European domains, the study revealed some oddities.
The .st domain suffix of the smallest country in Africa, the island nation of Sao Tome, hosts 307,000 pages of pornography — three-quarters of all of the 389,000 pages of pornography with African suffixes.
The study also found that the only Middle Eastern domain suffix to host online adult pages is the Israeli suffix, .il, which hosts 77,800. The only Arab country domain in the database that hosts any pornography is Libya, or .ly.
The domain suffixes of a number of small islands in the Pacific host a large number of pornographic web pages. The domain of the island nation of Niue hosts 3 million pages of porn on its .nu domain, and other island domains that each host hundreds of thousands of pages of online adult material are the suffixes of Tonga, Christmas Island, the Cocos Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
Secure Computing, a publicly held network security firm, also said that nearly every country suffix in Europe had some porn sites, even very small countries. The .li suffix of Liechtenstein hosts 27,800 online adult pages, and the .mc suffix of Monaco hosts 2,400.