Surprising map of the Internet shows tiny U.S. and huge mystery island
If you judged each country based on how many websites used their two-letter Internet domain code, like Canada’s .ca or India’s .in, the U.S. would pale in comparison to the might of the United Kingdom, Germany and China.
**minet, the official registry for UK domain names, created a map of the world that bases country size on how many websites use those two-letter domains. (For example, the French version of Google is google.fr, so that counts as a website in France.)
But what is that island east of Asia and Australia? That’s the New Zealand island territory Tokelau, racking up an impressive 30 million domain registrations. Read more...