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Country code	.vi
Hosts	4,610		[125th of 228]
DEFINITION: This entry lists the number of Internet hosts available within a country. An Internet host is a computer connected directly to the Internet; normally an Internet Service Provider's (ISP) computer is a host. Internet users may use either a hard-wired terminal, at an institution with a mainframe computer connected directly to the Internet, or may connect remotely by way of a modem via telephone line, cable, or satellite to the Internet Service Provider's host computer. The number of hosts is one indicator of the extent of Internet connectivity.		View time series
SOURCE: IANA: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
Internet Service Providers	50		[21st of 229]
DEFINITION: The number of Internet Service Providers within a country. An ISP is defined as a company that provides access to the Internet.
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
ISP	50		[11th of 162]
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003		View time series
Secure Internet servers	23		[99th of 183]
DEFINITION: Secure servers are servers using encryption technology in Internet transactions.		View time series
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
TLD	.vi
DEFINITION: This entry includes the two-letter codes maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in the ISO 3166 Alpha-2 list and used by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to establish country-coded top-level domains (ccTLDs).		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Users	30,000		[146th of 190]
DEFINITION: This entry gives the number of users within a country that access the Internet. Statistics vary from country to country and may include users who access the Internet at least several times a week to those who access it only once within a period of several months.		View time series
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008

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