Posts tagged "digital-divide"

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March 27, 2026 16 min read

From 329 to 70 Million: The Internet's Most Extreme Country-Code TLDs and What They Reveal

North Korea has 329 domains. Eritrea has 384. Vatican City has 1,799. Germany has 70 million. We profiled every country-code TLD in our dataset with fewer than 100,000 entries and found a taxonomy of digital absence — from hermit states that barely exist online to micro-nations whose ccTLDs were hijacked by global commerce. The ratio between the largest and smallest national namespaces is 212,500 to 1.

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March 26, 2026 16 min read

Domain Distribution by Continent: 520 Million ccTLD Domains and the Map of Digital Inequality

We counted every country-code domain in our dataset — 520 million entries across 245 ccTLDs — and mapped them to continents. Europe holds 54% of all ccTLD domains with 280 million entries despite having 10% of global population. Africa holds 3.1% with 16 million entries despite having 18% of global population. Japan alone has more ccTLD domains than every African country combined. The data reveals a digital divide that is not closing — it is hardening.

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