Addressing the World

Few people think of an Internet domain name like .us or .in as anything other than an address-when in fact it often serves as a roadmap to national identities and priorities. Addressing the World looks behind eleven of the 240 global domain names from the United States and Australia to Moldova and East Timor. Stories and first-person accounts by activists journalists Internet administrators lawyers and academics examine the sociological historical political and technological development of Internet country code top-level domains (ccTLDs).