Posts tagged "digital-divide"

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March 27, 2026 22 min read

From 329 to 117 Million: The Internet's Most Extreme Country-Code TLDs and What They Reveal

North Korea's .kp holds 329 observed hostnames. Eritrea's .er holds 384. Vatican City's .va holds 1,862. Germany's .de holds 117.7 million. We profiled the smallest national namespaces in our dataset and the impossibly large ones, then ran a DNS-resolution pass — and found that several of the 'biggest' tiny-country ccTLDs barely resolve at all. The ratio between the largest and smallest functional national namespaces is roughly 357,000 to 1. Refreshed June 2026 with first-party A-record data.

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March 26, 2026 23 min read

Domain Distribution by Continent: 971 Million ccTLD Hostnames and the Map of Digital Inequality

We counted every country-code hostname in our dataset — 971 million observed hostnames across the ccTLD namespace — and mapped them to continents. Europe holds 51% with 497 million from roughly 10% of global population. Africa holds 4.8% raw, but nearly half of that is Freenom free-domain churn that barely resolves; the real African namespace is .za-led and far smaller. We triangulate every continent against our 9 June 2026 A-record crawl to separate national usage from dead inventory.

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