> Of Bill Potts
> John Schweisthal wrote:
>>"I take it the "country" is taken from the URL extension.
>>But, why are there so many unresolved/unknowns?"
> 
>I don't know. I've never looked into it.

Good question. Here are some thoughts:

The analysis presumably resolves
.us = 'United States'
.ca = 'Canada'
.de = 'Germany'
.edu = 'US educational'
.net = 'network'

It appears that they falsely assume that
.com = US commercial
Many non-US commercial companies use this suffix


The following two suffixes are US, but it is not clear whether they would be
recorded as such or would be given their own category.
.mil
.gov


It is not clear what they do with
.org
It should not be attributed to any particular country


They may have an incomplete look up table for other countries. And/or they
may simply combine small scores into an 'other' category to prevent the
table from getting difficult to read.


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Terry Simpson
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