Last year, a map of the world scaled the most popular top-level domains. The Pacific island of Tokelau reigned supreme.
In 2017, its superiority has yet to fade.
The number of .tk websites may have dropped from 31 million to 18 million, but the four square miles of land in New Zealand still has more domain registrations than almost any other nation or territory in the world.
The strange-looking world map, produced by UK domain registry Nominet, shows just how total its dominance is. Tokelau is barely visible on standard world maps, but here it becomes a huge area in the southern Pacific. Russia and America, by comparison, shrink to relative obscurity.
China, the world's most populous nation, is now first on the list with more than 20 million registered domains on .cn, followed by Germany (16 million on .de), United Kingdom (10.6 million for .uk and .co.uk) and Tokelau (18 million for .tk).
The nation with the smallest number of domain registrations? Guinea Bissau (.gw), with just two. The tiny size of the United States on this new map is due to the relative obscurity of the .us top-level domain, which has just 2,323,053 registrations.
While .com is by far the most popular top-level domain …
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In 2017, its superiority has yet to fade.
The number of .tk websites may have dropped from 31 million to 18 million, but the four square miles of land in New Zealand still has more domain registrations than almost any other nation or territory in the world.
The strange-looking world map, produced by UK domain registry Nominet, shows just how total its dominance is. Tokelau is barely visible on standard world maps, but here it becomes a huge area in the southern Pacific. Russia and America, by comparison, shrink to relative obscurity.
China, the world's most populous nation, is now first on the list with more than 20 million registered domains on .cn, followed by Germany (16 million on .de), United Kingdom (10.6 million for .uk and .co.uk) and Tokelau (18 million for .tk).
The nation with the smallest number of domain registrations? Guinea Bissau (.gw), with just two. The tiny size of the United States on this new map is due to the relative obscurity of the .us top-level domain, which has just 2,323,053 registrations.
While .com is by far the most popular top-level domain …
Continue: wired.co.uk
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