A disproportionate amount of this global communication is conducted in English. More than half of the .com and .net internet sites in the world are hosted in the Us (Paolillo2005), and the nine most heavily visited websites websites in the world are all in English (Alexa 2008). An estimated 29.4 percent of world internet users are native speakers of English (MIniwantts Marketing Group 2008), and English has become the dominant lingua franca for cross-language communication online (Crystal 2001: Paolilo 2005)