Comments on: Web codes, world-wide

Web codes, world-wide

hydrophonic — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:57:43 -0800

More map fun: The first world map of internet country codes. Large jpg here.

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:01:51 -0800

Way cool. Just added the big JPEG to my Maps folder. Thanks!

By: Plutor

Plutor — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:11:23 -0800

That's cool? It's a map with two hundred extra letters on it. Hooray! (If you have a ccTLD and want to know the country it identifies, it would be far easier just to check the list.)

By: Chunder

Chunder — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:14:44 -0800

Gosh - they even have .im on there... I'm impressed

By: peacay

peacay — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:16:51 -0800

I agree with Plutor. I'm not sure why this would be considered cool or amazing or fantastic except as a photoshop tutorial exam submission or something.....but even then I doubt it would impress anyone very much.

By: LeLiLo

LeLiLo — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:20:38 -0800

I like that .um code. Great for public speakers.

By: jjg

jjg — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:39:01 -0800

Arial? Seriously?

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:51:30 -0800

Oddly though, .je (Jersey) is omitted, despite the inclusion of .gg (Guernsey) and .im (Isle of Man).

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:52:09 -0800

Scratch that, it's there, convienently inscribed into Western France. My bad.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:52:41 -0800

lelilo, how about .eh? :)

By: Guy Smiley

Guy Smiley — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:54:54 -0800

I'm just happy to finally put a location to .cx.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:55:07 -0800

Interesting:

Only one domain (dra.hmg.gb, for the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency) is still registered in gb (United Kingdom, although the letters actually stand for Great Britain, a subset of the UK) and no new registrations are being accepted for it.

By: bitmage

bitmage — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:08:02 -0800

Plutor/pecay - I guess you just have to be geeky enough, or like maps. My order's in. Whether it would impress others was not one of my criteria. Thanks, hydrophonic!

By: davejay

davejay — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:19:21 -0800

Call me when someone makes an (accurate) map via a google mashup, wherein I can type http://x.y.z and see, via satellite, the currently-registered location of that domain. in the meantime, I'm napping

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:21:48 -0800

hey, that's.... useful!

By: scruss

scruss — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:27:13 -0800

... and still there was nothing for Scotland.

By: mendel

mendel — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:39:30 -0800

I don't know how they could have chosen a less-useful map to put the country codes on. Relief? State boundaries? White on light blue? I guess if it was a nice, small, one-screen-size map they couldn't charge you $75 for it.

By: Kickstart70

Kickstart70 — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:45:50 -0800

.eh should really be the one for Canada.