Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.55.0305200113270.24959@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: Transmissions and Empires
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 01:13:44 -0400 (EDT)
Transmissions and Empires the following list of representative countries and domains was gathered from google - the first 100 entries of the (anglicized) country name filtered to the domain. the british commonwealth has a strong showing; the u.s. is weak, taking .com, .mil, etc. for granted. some countries divide among others. google of course is never neutral, and the search was in the linguistic empire of english. antarctica "an", "0" australia "au", "92" belgium "be", "61" brazil "br", "42" britain "uk", "54" canada "ca", "91" chile "cl", "73" china "cn", "23" cocos islands "cc", "4" colombia "co", "49" east timor "tp", "4" egypt "eg", "24" falkland islands "fk", "22" fiji "fj", "30" finland "fi", "85" france "fr", "66" gabon "ga", "0" germany "de", "79" greenland "gl", "38" grenada "gd", "1" iceland "is", "62" india "in", "12" iran "ir", "7" iraq "iq", "0" israel "il", "50" italy "it", "51" japan "jp", "66" korea "kr", "54" malawi "mw", "10" marshall islands "mh", "1" mexico "mx", "21" mongolia "mn", "25" new zealand "nz", "78" philippines "ph", "38" pitcairn "pn", "9" russia "ru", "43" rwanda "rw", "7" saudi arabia "sa", "8" slovenia "si", "69" somalia "so", "2" south africa "za", "78" tajikistan "tj", "3" tonga "to", "16" united arab emirates "ae", "28" united states "us", "1" vatican "va", "35" vietnam "vn", "16" __