Generic Top Level Domains are TLD reserved regardless of geography. At the present time, there are the following gTLDs: .aero, .biz, .com, .coop, .info, .int, .jobs, .mobi, .museum, .name, .net, .org, .pro, .tel, and .travel. There exist other peculiar gTLD, such as .edu, .mil, and .gov, that are reserved for United States educational, military, and governmental institutions or organizations; .asia is restricted to the Pan-Asia and Asia Pacific community, and .cat is restricted to the Catalan linguistic and cultural community.
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Measuring and Mapping the World Wide Web through Web Hyperlinks
Mario A. Maggioni (Università Cattolica, Italy), Mike Thelwall (University of Wolverhampton, UK), and Teodora Erika Uberti (Università Cattolica, Italy)
Copyright: © 2009
|Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-014-1.ch121
Abstract
The Internet is one of the newest and most powerful media that enables the transmission of digital information and communication across the world, although there is still a digital divide between and within countries for its availability, access, and use. To a certain extent, the level and rate of Web diffusion reflects its nature as a complex structure subject to positive network externalities and to an exponential number of potential interactions among individuals using the Internet. In addition, the Web is a network that evolves dynamically over time, and hence it is important to define its nature, its main characteristics, and its potential.