I realize I’m a bit obsessed with country codes. It’s a sickness, I know. After I created the Country Codes of the World map, I began looking at other platforms for the design. And since I own an iPhone, I couldn’t resist creating a custom wallpaper for it. Here are two ccTLD wallpapers for the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Domain names'
Country code wallpaper for your iPhone
April 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tags: Apple · Country Codes (ccTLD) · Domain names · iPhone
Where is China’s fast-track IDN?
March 8th, 2010 · 2 Comments
In January of this year, ICANN announced that four fast-track IDNs had made it through linguistic approval — effectively clearing the way for commercialization. Oddly missing from that list was China’s IDN. One of the reasons ICANN initiated a fast-track process — if not the reason — was China. China began putting pressure on ICANN [...]
Tags: China · Domain names · IDN (Intl. Domain Name)
The world’s most dangerous country codes
January 4th, 2010 · 4 Comments
If you want to know the world’s most dangersous ccTLDs, ask an anti-virus software company. McAfee has released its list of most dangerous country codes. Here are the top five: Cameroon (.cm) PR of China (.cn) Samoa (.ws) Philippines (.ph) Former Soviet Union (.su) Why is Camerooon at the top of the list? Because .cm [...]
Tags: China · Country Codes (ccTLD) · Domain names
A fantast.ic new country code
November 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Last week I wrote about the coming of IDNs (internationalized domain names). But IDNs aren’t the only new country codes to keep your eyes on. There is also the occasional new Latin-based ccTLD. Like .IC. The Canary Islands is looking to get a country code to raise its visibility. That, and also to bring in [...]
Tags: Country Codes (ccTLD) · Domain names
.YU we hardly knew you
September 24th, 2009 · No Comments
It’s funny how top-level domain names (TLDs) outlast the countries they represent. In 2007 I wrote about the end of .YU (Yugoslavia), though it didn’t exactly go away back then. Stephane Gelder writes that the TLD for Yugoslavia expires officially in a week, to be replaced by .RS (Serbia). So this is it. Goodbye .YU. [...]
Tags: Country Codes (ccTLD) · Domain names


