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They are growing in Scotland according to the Wikipedia page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollemia and I've seen a large one growing unprotected at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore.

I have two of these Wollemi pines after reading about the story of them a few years ago and being fascinated (I paid $100 for them but worth it to tell people the story). The trick to keeping them alive is to not do anything with them at all I think.

I've had the same issue with my extension - it has 250k users and it was removed a few days ago with no warning. I recieved one reply 12 hours later saying there was "too many keywords" in the description. It has been in the Chrome Web Store for at least 5 years with the same description - very odd and it is still not restored.

On a interesting side note Optimizely was a very early customer of ours (BuiltWith) starting in 2010 which helped them find customers for their own tool based on sites using their competitors (which at the time wasn't very many), I don't think it will bother them that other businesses can do the same thing.

Glad to see all these other tools in the market now there was and is clearly a need for it.

If you count sub-domains on Alexa top domains here's a few big companies in there like iStockPhoto and Debenhams -

  discover.istockphoto.com
  store.xda-developers.com
  support.sharebeast.com
  finance.debenhams.com
  poy.tsn.ca
  m.nzherald.co.nz
  blog.telmex.com
  business.un.org
  coinad.com
  status.formstack.com
  indulgy.com
  all-that-is-interesting.com
  pbh2.com
  edoqs.com
  grandascent.com
  locations.paychex.com
  pagelines.com
  danjur.com
  mrmoneymustache.com
We've got some historical stats for them here but we only started tracking in January -

https://trends.builtwith.com/hosting/Digital-Ocean

Not sure if this is of any interest but this is where they are getting new customers from (from most to least)

  Linode
  Softlayer	
  Rackspace	
  Amazon	
  GoDaddy

We've excluded most websites which contain user generated content because of the false positives they give off like this. We've added twitter.com to that list.

Nice list but if you include off-homepage usage by the top sites then you get massive companies like

Amazon studios.amazon.com

Twitter support.twitter.com

Weather feedback.weather.com

Go sportsnation.espn.go.com

AT&T insider.att.com

Target weeklyad.target.com

Imgur store.imgur.com

Photobucket support.photobucket.com

Shameless plug - all found at http://builtwith.com

How relatively easy is this to do for governments? Are there systems in place in other countries which makes this extremely complex/impossible to do?

A good place to look might be at your competitors. If your product is better, easier or cheaper then that might be a good source of potential customers as you know they understand the problem and already have/maybe pay for a solution.

Here comes the non-shameless plug, BuiltWith TrendsPro might be a good tool to find these sorts of businesses.

I think you found the answer in your question. If I have to setup a US company because I can't get support in Australia to accept USD on my site, what else should I be doing in the US? It's got nothing to do with business plans or PayPal fees, it's about offering a professional solution on a global scale.