Media > Internet Stats: compare key data on Bouvet Island & Germany
Definitions
- Hosts: 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.
- IP addresses: Number of IPv4 internet addresses allocated to each country.
- IP addresses (share): Share of IPv4 internet addresses allocated per country.
- Livejournal users: Number of users with LiveJournal accounts (Dec 2004)
- TLD: 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).
SOURCES: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; http://www.iana.org/numbers; LiveJournal
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