Where the Web Lives, 2023–2026: The Map That Refused to Move
We replayed 26 monthly snapshots of where the world's domains resolve — 38 months of A-record and geoIP data, Apr 2023 to Jun 2026 — counted one domain one vote across tens of millions of apexes per month. The expected story was de-Americanization and cloud consolidation. The data tells a stranger one: the geographic map barely moved. The United States hosted 45.9% of resolving domains in 2023 and 45.2% in 2026. The only line that climbed is the anycast bucket that hides where a domain truly lives, and the only provider that genuinely surged is Amazon, which tripled its footprint while its share of cloud spending fell. This is the first longitudinal post in the series.