Cultural Monopoly Via the Internet?

Author: Ievgen Blagodarnyi

Author: Ievgen Blagodarnyi

As native speakers of English, we often forget that the rest of the world simply doesnt speak our language. This is evident from the fact that, according to a database of more than 120 million domains, 71.5% of all websites have English as their primary language. Websites where Chinese, Spanish, French, or Japanese are the primary language make up a combined 16.3% of all domains. Why is this percentage so small when the populations that speak these other languages are so large? Few people realize that this question is indicative of similar, related questions that we should be asking about the Internet. Is it safe to allow the distribution of power to be so unequal? Take the distribution of domains for example. According to the above mentioned database, as many as two million domain names may be assigned to the same IP address, as is the case with 68.178.232.99. That is 2% of all the domain names on the Internetnearly the same number of domains that use Japanese! Imagine the power . . . . There are inequalities like this throughout all aspects of the Internet. A single company in Scottsdale, Arizona owns more domains than any other. They are called GoDaddy Ltd., and they host some 20 million domains. Their closest competition comes from the German company PlusLine Systemhas GmbH, which serves a mere two million. This lack of balance has trickled down, creating an Internet where there are 86 million .coms, but only 5.4 million .infos. Even amongst the .nets and .orgs there are only 13 million and 8 million, respectively. On a more technical level, domain-density varies drastically between networks. The A class network (68.X.X.X), the most densely populated with 15 million domains, towers over its nearest competitor (64.X.X.X), which has less than a third as many domains. All this goes to say that the powers of the Internet are far from being balanced. All of these statistics are available at http://www.webboar.com where they are updated dailyyou dont have to let it all happen in the dark.About the Author:

Ievgen Blagodarnyi,

http://www.webboar.com

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