A strange map

ccTLD map of the world wide web

Our latest and greatest map — Country Codes of the World — was published about two weeks ago.

Since then, the response has been pretty amazing. I had a feeling that anyone involved in Web globalization would get a kick out of the map, but I have since discovered that everyone from cartographers to lawyers to Web designers have also found the map interesting.

But what truly is amazing is that people around the world have also responded to the map. Here are three recent examples, none of which I can read all that well:

I was particularly honored that the popular Web site Strange Maps recently selected the map for their growing collection. I wasn’t sure if our map would be strange enough to make the cut, but apparently it was!

John Yunker
John Yunker

John is co-founder of Byte Level Research and author of Think Outside the Country as well as 19 editions of The Web Globalization Report Card.

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