You'll never guess the most popular internet country code 

He he

Fr

This cracked me up

Menmap

Mhm, they're men and with a map

Murica!

"think" is an overstatememt

On the other hand, the UK took exactly the same attitude towards stamps (the internet of the 19th century!). Even now, only the UK doesn't put the name of the country on their stamps (or so I'm told).

Everyone else is just kind of a background country for use in the plots of our movies. I'm not 100% convinced that the UK actually exists. It may have just been created as the ideal place to set historical dramas for TV shows. Same goes for Russia. I think that place was just created to give Boris and Natasha a little backstory.

It's true. We don't. And it's the same for the "English" FA.@@catherinebutler4819

I heard of it when I was younger...

.tk was all the rage, back in the day

Same

Thank you Jigsaw from the Saw franchise

@@k.umquat8604 I knew it. I knew it! 😂😂😂 As a defense, I was born and named before the Saw series was released. But yeah, my name usually raises suspicion (even in Germany) and I both love and hate it at the same time 😁

The same thing is with Bern in Switzerland that likes using .be

@@vardekpetrovic9716 Exactly, it can sometimes come in handy to look at a car and know where they're from. However, in recent years we've loosened the "one county, one code" policy for historic reasons, allowing some old codes from former counties e.g. such that were merged with another or cities that at some point lost their status as a county of its own. This makes it all the more interesting, but on the other hand it can get very confusing as some of those were ridiculously small, especially in the former GDR. For example, in my county you'll get "HSK" for Hochsauerlandkreis only, but if you're from Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, the standard code is MSE, but you could now also opt for AT for Altentreptow DM for Demmin MC for Malchin MST for Mecklenburg-Strelitz MÜR for Lake Müritz NZ for Neustrelitz RM for Röbel/Müritz and WRN for Waren/Müritz. All for one county 😂

@@vardekpetrovic9716 Exactly, it can sometimes come in handy to look at a car and know where they're from. However, in recent years we've loosened the "one county, one code" policy for historic reasons, allowing some old codes from former counties e.g. such that were merged with another or cities that at some point lost their status as a county of its own. This makes it all the more interesting, but on the other hand it can get very confusing as some of those were ridiculously small, especially in the former GDR. For example, in my county you'll get "HSK" for Hochsauerlandkreis only, but if you're from Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, the standard code is MSE, but you could now also opt for AT for Altentreptow DM for Demmin MC for Malchin MST for Mecklenburg-Strelitz MÜR for Lake Müritz NZ for Neustrelitz RM for Röbel/Müritz and WRN for Waren/Müritz. All for one county 😂

Why yes, one and the same. But rather than fix its deceptive advertising they’ve decided to throw tons and tons of money into trying to repair their reputation.

Don’t worry, the video creators already accepted the sponsor money without looking into who or what they’re shilling. What can you expect from a two minute answer stretched out 11 minutes

Now that you mention it, I'll avoid this company, and I hope Jay and Mark do the same as well!

and if such a company offered me $10k I would promote them, which I feel is what these two did, but had the decency to make it very obvious they were paid, so with that I'll leave a like on this comment hoping that it stays at the top.

oh no...entertainment on the internet? How dare they! If you want boring info straight to the point, you got wikipedia.@@Metzgeweiser

True. These videos are hilarious.

I wish England was a real place you could go to

And the green screen suddenly replacing the island background just before the cut ending the '.tk' bit, when it was said "People who have never been there". lol

The little touch of adding the end of film roll marker before the ad break was my favorite bit

I feel like im blind, where is the bit of the graphic blocking Jay's face in the video?

OMG MY FRIENDS ARE EVERYWHERE. WE ARE EXACTLY THE SAME DOWN TO THE PARTIAL WHITE BORDER

This is entirely from my own experiences with my own server, but: The reason is that when getting an SSL certificate for your server, you need to prove to a Certificate Authority (CA) that your domain name is connected to your server. So if you trust the CA and a server can provide a valid certificate for that domain from that CA, you can assume that the DNS entry is legit. The certificate includes a public key, so you know your encrypted communication only reaches the intended recipient and vice-versa. Automated verification works by running a program on the server that asks the CA to provide a challenge, then responding to that challenge by making the answer accessible under the domain name.

Yeah… let’s hope this’ll be the last time

@@basil4154 unfortunately it's not, I just had a sneak peak look into their next video and they were sponsored by betterhelp again :(

What's wrong with betterhelp? Am I missing something?

@@MarabouPatriot they sell your therapy data and hire really shit "therapists"

​@MarabouPatriot they sell data from their clients

It was the beginning of the internet

@@davidkavanagh531 damn beat me to it by 12 mins

Imagine how many alt accounts every one of those 4000 people have just to inflate youtube video views and likes past the 4k mark

The internet is just a fad, it’ll never catch on!

No that's just fantasy. Everyone knows that in the future computers will be so large and expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own one.

It's actually hilarious how well done that distortion is

Plot twist: they actually printed it out

Looks to me like it might've been made in 3d software

​@@DerMBenstill had to be tracked manually

@@DerMBen Yeah upon closer inspection I'm not even sure they're actually holding a green screen

can confirm, am krishacz

Why does English use this spelling in the first place? It should be spelled 'Chek' or 'Chec' not "cZeCh". So confusing.

@@_blank-_ Because it's based on Čech/Čechy. "Č" makes a "ch" sound and in old Czech it used to be written like "cz", like in polish. And the ch is there because in czech "ch" makes a different sound: [x], like "ch" in german and "j" in spanish.

@@anonemos would do /ç/ after /e/ in German though

Souhlasím

So instead of scamming subtly like mainstream therapy, they scam blatantly 💀

Oh, I haven't heard about this before. Not good. But they wouldn't be the only channel of good reputation to do this, unfortunately. I think betterhelp has been quite good at hiding their foul deeds. Though with the amount of comments pointing this out, I don't think they will accept a sponsorship from betterhelp anytime soon....

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@@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV a quick google search could have save them some trouble.

Seriously, I'm dissapointed in Jay, do a 30 second google of controversy before taking money. With a more informal way of direct sposnor promotion, where you don't sell an ad spot like TV channel, but let them put words directly in your mouth comes a little bit of responsibility. Not a lot of it, just one quick google search would have sufficed.

I said years ago something felt off about them; it felt like every other RU-vidr suddenly had mental health problems that were solved by BetterHelp. I don’t want to say they’re all lying about it, but it seemed suspicious that the thing that suddenly got thousands of people “talking” about their problems was a random unheard of therapy company that by sheer coincidence happened to be paying the RU-vidrs in question.

@@HarryParkin I never trust any sponsorship I hear about from internet content. Be extremely wary of the overdimensioned marketing budget.

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@@Jojje94 generally the right way to go. Raycons are bad, raid shadow legends is bad, hello fresh had worker abuse problems and betterhelp...honestly as someone who studied psych in university i immediately went "uhm...so under what regulating body are these "therapists" operating and managed by? Did they do their masters/phds at verified post secondary institutions...?" Therapy isnt really something thats best conducted online through a sign up website...

I remember when BetterHelp was first called out, then it was suddenly an okay sponsor again and the claims were exaggerated and now people are suddenly back to calling them out again. Maybe Jay's audience is just more sensible, but otherwise this pattern will probably continue.

Elaborate please.

Yes, poor form to take their dosh

​@@MMM18092 1) Repeated controversies around sharing clients' private medical information with third parties. I'm sure you can imagine how much the health benefits of therapy would be disrupted by finding out what you'd said to your therapist in confidence has been somehow getting into your ad targeting dossier. 2) 2022 viral topic on TikTok where a lot of former BetterHelp clients came forward and described the shockingly bad quality of care they received on the platform. These are admittedly anecdotes - so we don't know how representative they are - but worrying ones.

Not to mention detrimental to your privacy.

@@MMM18092 Google them, it's not great 😕

Not sure whether it is the case any more, but when it was being introduced one had to prove that they are either from Catalonia or, more likely, that the content on the website would be in Catalan.

Wikipedia says the registry actually enforces that as a policy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cat (TL;DR: You can't register a .cat unless you're already established on the Catalan-speaking internet, but their filters for this are not exactly perfect.)

Glad someone else commented this. I'm from Catalonia and yeah, all government-related webpages and some businesses' webpages here use .cat before other TLDs.

Pity. Such a missed opportunity...

All Catalonians are actually 3 cats in a trench coat.

And if it's ".at" you know it's in German but uncensored.

As an American, I think that country codes are useless because basically everything can ship here and is in English anyways.

​@@wta1518 the least American mindset.

@@bywonline Have you never heard of a joke before?

Jup, being Dutch I do the same with .nl.

that sounds like a potentially huge revenue stream 🤔

It's not the case anymore. You can have a .ar

And if Eritrea (.er) or Iran (.ir) cooperated, they could cover the other Spanish infinitives.

It would also be great for pirate-themed sites!

​@@danielbishop1863and some french!

The first Map Men episode was where 3 English gentlemen from Minehead were planning a little hike to Bideford.

​@@ScotchWhiskey864 I would greatly appreciate it and thank you for the support and encouragement to link it to us!

I was actually thinking they'd probably make some pretty good Monty Python sketches.

I beg to differ.

Map Men, Map Men, map map map men men men men men men men men men men men men men...

​ @BigPoppaCronie "I point out things no one but me cares about on the internet for validation from strangers"

​ @BigPoppaCronie ​ @Jeff-yz1wx If you both disagree with her, why are you watching this video so early?

smael

@@BigPoppaCronieYou’re a really big boy.

Correct

Why?

@@Anonymouse1886 BetterHelp is like the back alley surgeon you go to remove bullets from you gut when you are a wanted criminal. Might be great, might steal your kidneys, just roll the dice. But basically they sell patient data, some therapists have no license and just cancel appointments or do something else while you talk.

Why

why

"The United Kingdom forgets it once set itself as the default country." Is another important addition

That’s sort of when happens when your country dominates popular culture and technology. Plus the fact that the US invented the internet..

@@i_know_youre_right_but the internet as we know it (and as we use it) was invented by the English. nice try though. sir tim berners lee, for reference

You invent something you can consider yourself the default on it

@@davestrider4973 Eh we have like 1000 years and an Empire to back that up.

How about Hoyte van Hoytema? That's pretty Dutch too! :)

@@testcardsandmore1231 That is bastardized Frisian.

Or Matthijs van Heijningen

Pannenkoek van Windmolen might be a more Dutch-sounding name, with only the small problem that I just made it up.

@@Zeem4 😂 Most Dutch names sound made up anyway. No problem.

I’ve heard…not-great things about them.

@@JaredJeyaretnamsame. Annoyed people keep getting sponsored by them

If a company is paying youtubers to advertise for them, it is almost always super shady. Looking at you, Nord VPN.

Neither did the TLD team

i'm going to make w.tf

*looks over at .tv*

​@@agatethegreat9135100k$ and its urs

​@@agatethegreat9135Good luck. Usually single letter domains are usually taken.

Nope. That's why I'm not watching this video

@@Daye04 salty 🤣🤣🤣

@@Casey-Jones Are you having a stroke, buddy?

Sure, they have shady past, but I'm more concerned about their shady present

@@Daye04 don't let a dumb sponsor take away from the genius behind this video.

Exactly, Betterhelp does not care for people whatsoever, simply money.

why is it that almost every single yt sponsorship are always revealed to have horrible intentions??? the one about being a lord or lady with scottish land was fairly obvious, but quite often, you'd never suspect anything. Prehaps people trust those they are subscribed to more?

@@fizthe_wizz There's a reason they don't advertise on more traditional methods.

@@jamesavis1I’ve actually started seeing ads for BetterHelp on TV recently.

​@@sannirayThat is true for almost every company. Marketing costs make up a major part of a project's budget

where can i find more info on this topic? that sounds like such a thing i would spend 2 hours reading about

@@elngsoupsames

​@@elngsoup Here are some keywords: Internationalized country code top-level domain, Punycode, ACE prefix The first is what OP is talking about specifically, the latter two are about how these domains are encoded to be compatible with the Internet domain name standard (which are a subset of ASCII), and still display correctly in user agents like a browser's URL bar.

and how this has caused a massive opportunity for phishing attacks since so many characters are similar in other alphabets - known as IDN homograph attacks. and issues for spam filters for ex. youtube can become yｏｕｔ⋃be

Like .ελ (rarely instead of .gr)

Now I really really want to go...

but is that something you can add to your .CV?

Toby le Squids is a T T Teessider.

Rosebury Topping?

who's rosemary topping

Do you mean raspberry topping?

punycode domains were and are a terrible idea, especially for security reasons -you can dupe a legitimate website by registering it's name in bold unicode characters for example, and links won't make this obvious

Due to how they are actually coded (using punycode) those are not "bonus" ccTLD because they actually use more than two characters. For example, .ελ is actually punycoded as .xn--qxam (8 letters); it's the browser that converts the opaque .xn--qxam into .ελ. Browsers that don't support punycode (or those that have IDN support disabled) will simply show .xn--qxam

Also, in russia you can sometimes see cyrillic urls with .рф domain (meaning RF - russia federation)

​@@white_145in Ukraine .укр and in Belarus .бел

I asked my Ukrainian tutor of Russian about this and she says that she often uses the latin alphabet when online because usually it is easier to navigate the internet due to it's prevalence.

Not a youtuber, but hadn't heard of the controversies til today?

and then the same RU-vidrs take VPN sponsorships to help people with their “privacy”😂😂

what happened ? I never heard of the controversies?

@@m_lies BetterHelp's therapists aren't licensed and anyone can join. BetterHelp failed to have written policies and procedures for protecting the privacy of health information. What's worse, BetterHelp was caught selling data to Facebook, Snapchat, Criteo, and Pinterest. The company recently settled for $7.8 million. The FTC confirmed that BetterHelp pushed people into handing over health information.

8:35

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isnt catalan cat language tough?

I'm pretty sure you meant to say furmination

​@@capybaratherealoneNL Not reaçly, cats say "meu" instead of "meow" and that's the extent the cat lsnguage goes afafik

@@Yuyo545 Nuh uh

gat

Same, although my pc threw up some interesting warnings before letting me go to it 🤣

same, i just had to type in the first sentence of the video in the url bar, and the fact that it worked makes it clear, that these guys are really on some other level

Agreed, but it needs an SSL cert :)

The joke worked twice - first when I had to pause to read it and second when i laboriously typed the url into my phone and actually went there. Also enjoyed the reference to space jam, it being one of the oldest websites still working

@@andyhoudini It had one just no automatic redirect, but it does now.

Nah, more likely they'd use .freedom. If it's good enough for fries it's good enough for the Internet.

Most of the people in question probably don't even know what a TLD is.

save.us 😀

From a non-US point of view, it's actually INCREDIBLY reflective of how often US-ians on the internet forget that the rest of the world exists and saying which country you're from to put your comments and posts in context, or not assuming everyone else is also in the US, might be a bit of a basic courtesy.

So many people here in the States get confused when I tell them the name of my website, which ends in .us. It's like they've never even heard about it (dialogwith.us). It was supposed to be clever but it just ends up being confusing for so many people.

Somewhat less vital reasons, but I sometimes have something similar going on between my native language of Czech, and Slovak. The two are mutually intelligible to a high degree, plus we used to be one country till just thirty years ago, which means I do every now and then get some Slovak results for my Czech queries...

If you think that is hard, try being an Austrian. German websites everywhere...

@@kain0m I was thinking of you down south. 🙂 Not my experience, though, so I did not bring it up.

Type "site:be" in search bar, that one Google does still care about

As a New Zealander I feel your pain. I search in English and so often get American results.

It redirects me to the Warner Brothers site

Tell me they atleast switched to https since then

they did@@OnionChoppingNinja

Based laser kiwi enjoyer

A deep cut, but a great one.

Cringe comments touch grass

​@@Trixtah Not really that deep

If we were gonna spend $25 million on a flag referendum the least we could have got in return was a laser kiwi. I’m a fan of the current flag but it was still quite disappointing to go through all that for nothing to change.

no you're not, every single youtuber seems to have just fucking forgot about what they've done and are taking the money again

In addition: There are ccTLDs that exist with no registered domains

Malware sometimes uses your Host File to redirect your DNS to a different site (IP) while still using the same URL. We also still adjust it in IT land for businesses due to complicated IT reasons. Generally at home your hosts file should be empty except for the default text, if not that could be a problem but ask your admin about it (If you are the admin then it probably is if you're not actively aware of it!)

@@Smitticus228 1. Is solved by HTTPS 2. If your a corporation you should be using your own DNS-server instead

Sounds like when you'd pick up the phone and have to get transferred to the number you were wanting by a nice lass by a switchboard.

@@jimbob3332 Alternatively it's like when you'd get a physical phone-book sent to you

yes! I rewound just after that picture came up as my noggin belatedly went 'huh'? at the waffle iron! Tho frankly I would love a computer that also makes waffles!!

No, that was a waffle drive, for your waffle discs, which are capable of storing a single bit per indentation based on whether there's any syrup in there. Additional data density was achieved by the addition of butter or whipped cream or other condiments. Unfortunately the acceptance of additional toppings was not universal, so no one has ever recognized my single sodden waffle storing the entirety of Wikipedia.

Hey, a toaster for only 15.000pounds, where do I pay ???

These days any PC can be used as a waffle iron by playing Crysis.

Sounds like you're in the business of commercial disinformation .

I'm www.gl.ad to hear that.

I've spent over an hour watching this 11 minute video :)

(Jk I'm not a New Zealander)

They used six flags and none of them were the laser kiwi. Disgraceful.

i thought six flags was based in the united states!

I'm pretty sure the official demonym is "Kiwi" or "Rohirrim" depending on the part of the NZ where you live

@@Ezullof The official demonym is, in fact, "New Zealander"... but "kiwi" is so universally wide spread that no one uses that outside of official documents and super formal speeches for super serious events... or clarifying for confused foreigners. (on a side note, the adjective (I think it is?) for 'things to do with New Zealand' is... 'New Zealand'. ... this Also usually gets replaced with 'kiwi'.) Also, New Zealand's national bird is the Kiwi. Also also, the fruit is NOT a kiwi. It is a kiwifruit. If you talk about eating kiwis here people will wonder if they should be reporting you for poaching or cannibalism for the half second it takes them to realise that your a foreigner. (well, ok, no, in reality they'll just be slightly confused for that half second). Anyway, NZ has One official flag, last I checked. For the country itself anyway. Unless I missed another round of idiocy seeing someone deciding to claim that a symbol of a seperatist or racist movement should be included as some sort of nod to inclusivity (never mind that the entire point of such is to Exclude people). Pick a direction to be stupid in on matters that can be tangentally related to race and you can bet it's been tried by some politician in one party or another at least once

According to the 2019 budget the Tuvulu government makes $7.1 million a year from the .tv licensing, roughly 8% of the country's total revenue. They also recently (this year) negotiated a new licensing deal with godaddy.

Is it even possible for a country to sell their ccTLD?

@@Liggliluffthey could theoretically enter into a contract giving a way control of it and the money generated by it, but it would most likely, technically, still be their property.

It's possible for a country to sell you land, why should the virtual domain be different?

@@Liggliluff legally they can give/sell anyone the right to admin the ccTLD, but because ICANN is the authority that decide who owns it, the country will always still own the ccTLD and have the final word in how it's used

i cant go to an actual therapist let alone a virtual one ;-;

That’s actually a really good idea! Thanks!

That sounds very interesting!!

TBH, I don't think we should incorporate them into an empire like that, but we probably should create a European Union type situation with all the Pacific island nations so none of us need passports to visit each other. Would be good for the people who come to Aotearoa for work, and good for us and them in terms of fostering tourism. Plenty of kiwis would probably love to have a quick holiday or two in the other, more tropical islands which would be good for their economies.

Is your attempt at creating an empire why you are cut off from so many maps? World punishing you for having ambition.

@@shotmeonsightplease If that was the reason, then the US, China, Russia, France and the UK wouldn't be on any maps either.

I like that the Map Men stuck up a bunch of alternative New Zealand flags from the 2015-2016 referendums at 2:37.

Oops. Soz.

It does have a bit of an odd shape here though, as if a 4-year-old drew it. Oh well, I guess you can't have it all

​@@DantevanGemertIt's just that the mapmakers were bit stupid and took the coastline as an outline for their countries. It works for most, except the Netherlands with the Deltaworks in Zeeland and the Afsluitdijk creating the IJsselmeer. The Scheldes en the IJsselmeer are technically inland waters because of it, creating the odd looking outline.

@@martijn9568 they may have taken a low resolution base map as well because Limburg is also a bit shrunken

It's also short for catalytic converter and catamaran.

@@nbartlett6538 not when it comes to URLs though ;)

@@nbartlett6538 and Caterpillar (the company)

It's not. It's short for Catalan (Catalan is spoken in more areas than Catalonia)