Andrew, I just noticed the following posted on your site: The Top 20 most popular countries visiting the site are: USA/Canada, UK, Sweden, Japan, Germany, Australia, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Brazil, New Zealand, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Mexico. Being a Canadian, I question whether you believe that USA and Canada are one and the same. It's not like Australia/New Zealand you know (hahaha).http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,533,533#msg-533Sun, 19 May 2013 03:28:50 +1000 Phorum 5.2.16 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,533,582#msg-582 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,533,582#msg-582
.ca addresses are generally for government entities and non-commercial organizations including universities and such whereas .com and .net have different connotations which are usually linked to commercial entities.

There is actually a set of rules for the 3 classes. I'm sure an internet FAQ will exist on IP Addressing that clarifies this.

The point being, at least in North America, .ca is not the exlusive identifier for Canadian sites.]]> Bighair NoticeboardThu, 27 Apr 2000 04:54:20 +1000 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,533,571#msg-571 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,533,571#msg-571
My rough estimate is Ameicas 2, Asia/Australia 2 Europe/UK 6.

Regards

Susumu

]]> Susumu NoticeboardThu, 27 Apr 2000 02:06:04 +1000 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,533,550#msg-550 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,533,550#msg-550
I will list every country for you when I get a chance...might be interesting for you and others to see.

Best regards,
Andrew.]]> Andrew NoticeboardWed, 26 Apr 2000 22:37:12 +1000 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,533,544#msg-544 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,533,544#msg-544
Anyway thanks for info.

Regards

Susumu]]> Susumu NoticeboardWed, 26 Apr 2000 20:33:08 +1000 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,533,541#msg-541 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,533,541#msg-541Thanks to Bob - my ISP man and chief problem solver for providing a little insight there...

My Stats report does have listed .ca addresses which add to 5% of traffic or something like that, but as Bob says above, the North american address are very hard to tell apart, so hence the USA/Canada link. North America may have been more politically correct :) !!

Thanks for the post!

Best regards,
Andrew.]]> Andrew NoticeboardWed, 26 Apr 2000 18:47:44 +1000 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,533,540#msg-540 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,533,540#msg-540> some technical reasons.

Yes and no.

Andrew's stats do differentiate Canada from the US, however I very much suspect that some Canadian ISP's are using .com/.net domains for their dialup ports (something that is known to happen here in Australia also).

I'd suspect this is quite common for Canadian ISP's buying wholesale dialup ports from US based companies (who have Canadian POP's, but are primarily US based).

Australia's largest ISP often presents itself as a '.net'...
]]> bobp NoticeboardWed, 26 Apr 2000 18:26:17 +1000 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,533,534#msg-534 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,533,534#msg-534
Also Japan is No.4(Am I right to interprete it this way?). Many sites in Japan such as Journey home pages and H/M, H/R links provide access to your site. I hope Japanese fans will voice their opinion about MHR matters particularly I want to hear the expert opinion from BURRN people.

Thanks, Andrew for giving us interesting trivias.

My opinion is Andrew's site cannot distinguish U.S.access from Canada from some technical reasons.

Regards

Susumu
]]> Susumu NoticeboardWed, 26 Apr 2000 12:58:30 +1000 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,533,533#msg-533 http://www.melodicrock.com/phorum52/read.php?1,533,533#msg-533
The Top 20 most popular countries visiting the site are: USA/Canada, UK, Sweden, Japan, Germany, Australia, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Brazil, New Zealand, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Mexico.

Being a Canadian, I question whether you believe that USA and Canada are one and the same. It's not like Australia/New Zealand you know (hahaha).]]> Whynot NoticeboardWed, 26 Apr 2000 12:39:26 +1000