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.