Geopolitics and Web Domains

The world of geopolitics has its fingerprints in the digital world in many forms, one of which being website domains. We see country code top-level domains (ccTLD) for countries that exist, no longer exist, could exist, or only exist to some. Country specific domain names are based upon the country’s ISO-3166 alpha-2 code (henceforth “country code”) and registration began in 1985 with the first…