Aussies love .AU

Keeping in mind that this is a survey funded by Australia’s registry, the data points pretty clearly toward a preference for .au over .com. From the announcement: The report found .au remains Australia’s home on the Internet with more than double the …

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Mystery codes

I recently completed a new infographic using country codes. What you see above is an excerpt. Can you guess what the codes are being used to signify (besides countries)? Enter your best guess in the comments. It may already be …

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A hit iPhone app, via Armenia

When I first discovered the popular iPhone photo app Instagr.am, my first thought was: Look, another creative use of a country code! In this case, the country code in question is that of Armenia. What I found interesting about the …

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The next Internet revolution will not be in English

This visual depicts about half of the currently approved internationalized domain names (IDNs), positioned over their respective regions. Notice the wide range of scripts over India and the wide range of Arabic domains. I left off the Latin country code …

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