Language on the Internet

This great article/project is home to a number of maps and animations all along the idea of an "internet archipelago." This one in particular looks at the internet through language:

"this mapping is limited to countries are home to a significant population speaking an internet language (a significant population is defined as at least 100,000 first tongue speakers). the political map of the world is rearranged based on internet language populations to create the language archipelago. the united states is placed at the center of the language archipelago for several reasons. it is the only country that has a significant population speaking all ten internet languages. it has the most extensive internet infrastructure. and it was the birthplace of the internet. from there, all the other internet countries are arranged in rays corresponding to the countries’ dominant internet language based on their ascendancy. the national flag at the end of each ray is used as a visual legend to key the ray’s language. this map illustrates the dominant role of the world’s superpowers on in internet and reveal the circumstance of countries at the periphery."

Geography of Domain Names

According to this article on Mappa Mundi there are currently over 18 million .com domains registered on the Internet, along with another 11 million domains of varying sorts. This map was compiled using the billing addresses of domains registered in Manhattan.

The internet as sketched-up buildings - SimCity-style

Here's a site where blogs and websites can pay to register themselves as buildings on the "streets" of the internet. Looks like it's mostly caught on just in Russia and eastern Europe.
link via digg

Geography of Spam

Brief piece from the Economist today showing the top spam-relaying countries.

Country codes of the world

Map design by John Yunker showing relative sizes of top level domain country codes.
Each ccTLD is sized relative to the population of the country or territory, with the exception of China and India, which were restrained by 30% to fit the layout. At the other end of the spectrum, the smallest type size used reflects those countries with fewer than 10 million residents.
link via strange maps

Interactive IP Map

There's another more interactive map out, similar to the ones I've posted before, using the Hilbert curve. Link here
We map all 4,294,967,296 IP addresses onto a huge image and let you zoom into it and pan around. Just like google maps, but more internetty.

Find your location on the internet

This is a really great site that uses the famed xkcd comic representation of the internet and plots your location on that map.



UPDATE: A census of internet space modeled on this xkcd comic is out from the Information Sciences Institute.


UPDATE: Here's a great blog post on the ICANN blog that I missed when it first came out. The same structure of the XKCD comic and adds color to indicate regional allocations and free space.