You'll never guess the most popular internet country code

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I hate videos where the title is a question but could just be the answer, so I searched the answer instead of clicking: it's Germany's country code, .de, which has 16.1 million registered domains. The next two are .uk and .cn, which belong to the United Kingdom and China, with 10.6 million and 9 million domains, respectively.
- Which is correct right now, but not historically. Which is explained in the video and how it came to that.
- If you had watched the video instead you would know that this isn’t really the point of it.
  
  Well that just makes the title even more useless.
- The point of this video really isn't to just give information, but rather to be funny and entertaining.
I can't believe they forgot to mention the Cook Islands, especially their commercial second-level domain!

It's .co.ck.
- Trash Bat
The latest Map Men video is a bit light on the maps (there’s basically only one) but is still a fascinating look at how top level domains came to exist and not match the physical world.

Their previous video, Internet Vs Ocean: the essential wires we never think about, is a good companion piece that describes the network of undersea cables that carry the internet across oceans.
- Thanks for sharing, I love Map Men. How did I miss this one‽

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