Map of .com names in New York
Copyright: Matthew Zook, 2000 <br>
There are currently over 18 million .com domains registered on the Internet, along with another 11 million domains of varying sorts [1]. What is the geography of these domains - who owns them and where are they concentrated? Clearly domain names are a valuable commodity (and some of them are very valuable, for example the $7.5 million paid for business.com or $3 million for loans.com), but they are also a useful indicator for tracking Internet content production. Mapping domain name geography provides valuable insights into where the decision makers, the new jobs, and the money are, helping identify which neighborhoods, cities, regions and countries are leading the pack on the Internet. Matthew Zook is a researcher at the forefront of measuring and mapping domain names in his Internet Geography Project [2]. Map of the Month asked him recently about his project.
Copyright: Matthew Zook, 2000 <br>
There are currently over 18 million .com domains registered on the Internet, along with another 11 million domains of varying sorts [1]. What is the geography of these domains - who owns them and where are they concentrated? Clearly domain names are a valuable commodity (and some of them are very valuable, for example the $7.5 million paid for business.com or $3 million for loans.com), but they are also a useful indicator for tracking Internet content production. Mapping domain name geography provides valuable insights into where the decision makers, the new jobs, and the money are, helping identify which neighborhoods, cities, regions and countries are leading the pack on the Internet. Matthew Zook is a researcher at the forefront of measuring and mapping domain names in his Internet Geography Project [2]. Map of the Month asked him recently about his project.
Zook has been
running a bi-annual survey of the geography of domain names since the
summer of 1998. Using the billing address for the domain name
registration he is able to pinpoint the location at which it is owned.
From this dataset he undertakes a variety of analysis and mapping from
the global scale down to the local neighborhood level. An example of
one of his maps shows the detailed geography of domain names in
Manhattan, New York, at the level of individual streets and
neighborhoods. The blue dots represent clusters of domain names at
individual street addresses, with the size of the dot denoting the
number of domains at that location.
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