“Top TLD’s 1-40” shows the number of active/hosted pages on the top 40 TLD’s. This information is purely numerical. The frequency these pages are visited, their actual content (i.e. a parked page, a starter/for sale page, a forwarding agent, etc.), and all other crucial information is not included and cannot be deduced from these raw numbers. All that can be observed is the physical number of active pages. Note the term “active pages;” this does not mean the number of total unique domain addresses. Just for the sake of argument abc123.com is one hosted page, abc123.com/1 is another hosted page (an extension of the first), abc123.com/2 is another hosted page, and so on and so forth.
According to the "Top TLD’s 1-40," as of March 2007, “.be” (Belgium), and “.at” (Austria) each had 64,100,000 number of hosted pages. The first thing that should raise an eyebrow is how are these numbers exactly the same, and so clean? Assuming the numbers are completely accurate, the next question is, does that mean that these two ccTLD’s have the exact same strength, and have commodities of equal value and strength? Which of these TLD’s has more unique individual domain addresses? Those questions cannot be known without doing further investigatory research on a number of fronts. In this case “the number of active/hosted pages” doesn’t say too much at all; this small piece of vague information doesn’t really answer any significant questions or heighten ones knowledge and understanding of anything.