According to Iran’s registry, the country reached 100,000 .ir registrations last month. For a country of 65 million people, 100,000 registrations is still a drop in the bucket. Compare that with the UK, a country with 60 million people and…
Inspired by our Country Codes of the World map, I developed a smaller version that includes the ccTLDs currently in use by Google for its local search engines. As you can see here, Google has quite a few ccTLDs in…
I recently came across a chart of the most popular domain extensions, compiled by Stephane Van Gelder. Although I keep track of ccTLD registrations for the Country Codes of the World map, Stephane tracks all domains, including .com, .net., etc.…
Can an international crisis be started over a country code? That’s what I can’t help but wonder when I read that Kosovo has requested its own country code domain. Serbia (and it’s powerful backer Russia) do not accept Kosovo’s independence…
I’ve got about a hundred copies of this map remaining and I’m offering them for $3 each for orders of 25 or $2 each for orders of 50 (plus postage). The map normally sells for $12 each, so this is…
The NY Times reports that China has surpassed the US in terms of Internet users. This comes via China’s state-controlled Internet Network Information Center. Here are the key numbers: United States 220 million Internet users 70% penetration China 253 million…
ICANN, the folks who manage Internet domains, recently decided to open up the generic top-level domain (gTLD) space to anyone who can afford it and can navigate ICANN’s complex approval process. gTLDs are those domains to the right of the…
Simon Johnson, co-founder of Domainer Income, interviewed me by phone recently on our Country Codes of World map. If you’re curious about how the map came to be — as well as what areas of the world .me, .bv, and…